Review: Worlds of Their Own  Reports of the National Center for
Science Education David Morrison This version might differ
slightly from the print publication. Work under Review Robert
Schadewald, edited by Lois Schadewald Philadelphia: Xlibris,
2008. 240 pages. It is a pleasure to recommend this book by
Robert Schadewald, who died several years ago at age 57, before
he was able to publish these essays together. Schadewald, a
free-lance technical writer by profession, was an avid student
of pseudoscience and advocate for a more rational world. The
publisher describes this book as a distillation of a lifetime of
research into why some people extend their views of reality
beyond the evidence, or deny the common reality and create their
own.  Bob's sister, Lois Schadewald, complied this book from a
variety of sources. Many chapters are previously published
essays, spanning 30 years. She also found notes for unfinished
books on the subjects of alternative science, perpetual motion,
scientific creationism and flat