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Paranormal claims : a critical analysis

by Michael Shermer, Stephen Barrett, Barry L. Beyerstein, Susan Blackmore, Geoffrey Dean, Bryan Farha, Ray Hyman, Joe Nickell, Benjamin Radford, James Randi, Linda Rosa & Carl Sagan

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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: 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

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences, Astrology, Cryptozoology and Forteana, Out-of-body, astral, and dream studies, and UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact.

  • Astrology

    Retained metadata contains “Astrology” in the description and “Astrology” in the subject metadata.

    • Astrology· in description
    • Astrology· in subject
  • Retained metadata contains “afterlife” in the description, “near-death” in the description, and “Near-death experiences” in the description.

    • afterlife· in description
    • near-death· in description
    • Near-death experiences· in description
  • Retained metadata contains “out-of-body” in the description.

    • out-of-body· in description
  • Retained metadata contains “extraterrestrial” in the description.

    • extraterrestrial· in description
  • Cryptozoology and Forteana

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “cryptozoology”. Retained metadata contains “Bigfoot” in the description and “Cryptozoology” in the description.

    • cryptozoology· via OpenAlex
    • Bigfoot· in description
    • Cryptozoology· in description

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2007-01-01University Press of America eBooksEnglishUnknown

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