| Description |
xvi, 167 p. : ill. : 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
General critical thinking. The fine art of baloney detection / Carl Sagan ; Why smart people believe weird things / Michael Shermer -- Fortune-telling and psychic phenomena. Cold reading : how to convince strangers that you know all about them / Ray Hyman ; Sylvia Browne : psychic guru or quack? / Bryan Farha -- Afterlife and related phenomena. Deconstructing the dead / Michael Shermer ; Near-death experiences : in or out of body? / Susan Blackmore -- Numerical anomalies. Number manipulation : the not "so spooky" Tim McVeigh / Bryan Farha -- Alternative medicine and health claims. Why bogus therapies often seem to work / Barry L. Beyerstein ; A close look at therapeutic touch / Linda Rosa, Emily Rosa, Larry Sarner, and Stephen Barrett ; Chiropractic's dirty secret : neck manipulation and strokes / Stephen Barrett ; Magnet therapy : a skeptical view / Stephen Barrett ; The great dilution delusion / James Randi -- Celestial influence and extraterrestrial. The case for and against astrology / Geoffrey Dean ; Looking up to logic / Bryan Farha -- Faith healing. Prayer and healing : the verdict is in and the results are null / Michael Shermer ; Benny Hinn : healer or hypnotist? / Joe Nickell ; John of God : ABC's Primetime Live special about a Brazilian "healer" falls far short of investigative journalism / James Randi -- Cryptozoology. Bigfoot at 50 : evaluating a half-century of Bigfoot evidence / Benjamin Radford. |
| Subject |
Parapsychology -- Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Farha, Bryan
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| ISBN |
9780761837725 (paper : alk. paper) |
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0761837728 (paper : alk. paper) |
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