Paranormal Claims: A Critical Analysis
Editat de Bryan Farha Cuvânt înainte de Michael Shermer Contribuţii de Stephen Barrett, Barry L. Beyerstein, Susan Blackmore, Geoffrey Dean, Ray Hyman, Joe Nickell, Benjamin Radford, James Randi, Linda Rosa, Carl Saganen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 apr 2007
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780761837725
ISBN-10: 0761837728
Pagini: 167
Dimensiuni: 154 x 233 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția University Press of America
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0761837728
Pagini: 167
Dimensiuni: 154 x 233 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția University Press of America
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Foreword
Preface
General Critical Thinking
Chapter 3 The Fine Art of Baloney Detection
Chapter 4 Why Smart People Believe Weird Things
Fortune-Telling
Chapter 5 Cold Reading: How to Convince Strangers That You Know All About Them
Chapter 6 Sylvia Brown: Psychic Guru or Quack?
Afterlife and Related Phenomena
Chapter 7 Deconstructing the Dead
Chapter 8 Near-Death Experiences: In or Out of Body?
Numerical Anomalies
Chapter 9 Number Manipulation: The Not "So Spooky" Tim McVeigh
Alternative Medicine and Health Claims
Chapter 10 Why Bogus Therapies Often Seem to Work
Chapter 11 A Close Look at Therapeutic Touch
Chapter 12 Chiropractic's Dirty Little Secret: Neck Manipulation and Strokes
Chapter 13 Magnet Therapy: A Skeptical View
Chapter 14 The Great Dilution Delusion
Celestial Influence and Extraterrestrial
Chapter 15 The Case For and Against Astrology
Chapter 16 Looking Up to Logic
Faith Healing
Chapter 17 Prayer and Healing: The Verdict Is In and the Results Are Null
Chapter 18 Benny Hinn: Healer or Hypnotist?
Chapter 19 John of God: ABC's Primetime Live Special about a Brazilian "Healer" Falls Short of Investigative Journalism
Cryptozoology
Chapter 20 Bigfoot at 50: Evaluating a Half-Century of Bigfoot Evidence
About the Contributors
Preface
General Critical Thinking
Chapter 3 The Fine Art of Baloney Detection
Chapter 4 Why Smart People Believe Weird Things
Fortune-Telling
Chapter 5 Cold Reading: How to Convince Strangers That You Know All About Them
Chapter 6 Sylvia Brown: Psychic Guru or Quack?
Afterlife and Related Phenomena
Chapter 7 Deconstructing the Dead
Chapter 8 Near-Death Experiences: In or Out of Body?
Numerical Anomalies
Chapter 9 Number Manipulation: The Not "So Spooky" Tim McVeigh
Alternative Medicine and Health Claims
Chapter 10 Why Bogus Therapies Often Seem to Work
Chapter 11 A Close Look at Therapeutic Touch
Chapter 12 Chiropractic's Dirty Little Secret: Neck Manipulation and Strokes
Chapter 13 Magnet Therapy: A Skeptical View
Chapter 14 The Great Dilution Delusion
Celestial Influence and Extraterrestrial
Chapter 15 The Case For and Against Astrology
Chapter 16 Looking Up to Logic
Faith Healing
Chapter 17 Prayer and Healing: The Verdict Is In and the Results Are Null
Chapter 18 Benny Hinn: Healer or Hypnotist?
Chapter 19 John of God: ABC's Primetime Live Special about a Brazilian "Healer" Falls Short of Investigative Journalism
Cryptozoology
Chapter 20 Bigfoot at 50: Evaluating a Half-Century of Bigfoot Evidence
About the Contributors
Recenzii
Reading the chapters in this fine anthology will make you smarter and better able to cope...they will give you tools to allow you to sift sense from nonsense about all manner of claims and assertions that swirl about without much intelligent evaluation or response. This is your antidote to those.
Dr. Farha has never had any misconceptions about how the universe really works. His book will encourage and help those for whom questions have arisen, and will give them points upon which to base arguments against the ever-growing dumbing-down of the public. We must awaken to this danger and oppose it.
...Bryan Farha's book is a compilation of serious, scientifically and logically grounded articles; balm for the mind. The importance of this book should not be underestimated. It's a concise vade mecum in our struggles against those who refuse to see logic.
A 'how to' book for apprehending nature in its true grandeur.
Dr. Farha has never had any misconceptions about how the universe really works. His book will encourage and help those for whom questions have arisen, and will give them points upon which to base arguments against the ever-growing dumbing-down of the public. We must awaken to this danger and oppose it.
...Bryan Farha's book is a compilation of serious, scientifically and logically grounded articles; balm for the mind. The importance of this book should not be underestimated. It's a concise vade mecum in our struggles against those who refuse to see logic.
A 'how to' book for apprehending nature in its true grandeur.