Pseudoscience and Deception: The Smoke and Mirrors of Paranormal Claims
Editat de Bryan Farha Cuvânt înainte de MICHAEL SHERMERen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 dec 2013
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780761862925
ISBN-10: 0761862927
Pagini: 173
Ilustrații: 17 b/w illustrations; 4 tables;
Dimensiuni: 154 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția University Press of America
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0761862927
Pagini: 173
Ilustrații: 17 b/w illustrations; 4 tables;
Dimensiuni: 154 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția University Press of America
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Foreword, by Michael Shermer
Preface
Acknowledgements
CRITICAL THOUGHT ABOUT STRANGE THINGS
1. Why Smart People Believe Weird Things
2. How to Argue
PSYCHIC PHENOMENA & FORTUNE-TELLING
3. Cold Reading: How to Convince Strangers That You Know All About Them
4. Long Island Chicanery
SCIENCE/HEALTH CLAIMS
5. Why Bogus Therapies Often Seem to Work
6. Power Balance Products: A Skeptical Look
7. Consensus on Climate Change
8. Why Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis is Worthless
OUT OF THIS WORLD
9. The Case For and Against Astrology
10. Looking Up to Logic
11. The Lunar Effect and Confirmation Bias
RELIGION & FAITH HEALING
12. Prayer and Healing: The Verdict Is In and the Results Are Null
13. Confessions of a Skeptic
PSYCHOTHERAPY
14. Pseudoscience in Contemporary Clinical Psychology: What it is and what we can do about it
NUMERICAL ANOMALIES
15. Number Manipulation: The Not "So Spooky" Tim McVeigh
AFTERLIFE AND RELATED PHE
Preface
Acknowledgements
CRITICAL THOUGHT ABOUT STRANGE THINGS
1. Why Smart People Believe Weird Things
2. How to Argue
PSYCHIC PHENOMENA & FORTUNE-TELLING
3. Cold Reading: How to Convince Strangers That You Know All About Them
4. Long Island Chicanery
SCIENCE/HEALTH CLAIMS
5. Why Bogus Therapies Often Seem to Work
6. Power Balance Products: A Skeptical Look
7. Consensus on Climate Change
8. Why Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis is Worthless
OUT OF THIS WORLD
9. The Case For and Against Astrology
10. Looking Up to Logic
11. The Lunar Effect and Confirmation Bias
RELIGION & FAITH HEALING
12. Prayer and Healing: The Verdict Is In and the Results Are Null
13. Confessions of a Skeptic
PSYCHOTHERAPY
14. Pseudoscience in Contemporary Clinical Psychology: What it is and what we can do about it
NUMERICAL ANOMALIES
15. Number Manipulation: The Not "So Spooky" Tim McVeigh
AFTERLIFE AND RELATED PHE
Recenzii
Praise for the First Edition
Reading the chapters in this fine anthology will make you smarter and better able to cope. First, they will inform you and enrich your life. Then 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.
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.
Reading the chapters in this fine anthology will make you smarter and better able to cope. First, they will inform you and enrich your life. Then 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.
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.