Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids

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Loxton and Prothero complete an entertaining, educational, and definitive text on demonstrably false phenomena, presenting both the arguments for and against their existence and systematically challenging the pseudoscience perpetuating their myths.

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  Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous...

  • 2013-08-06
  • 434 pages
  • Ebook
  • Columbia University Press

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