Pseudoscience and deception : the smoke and mirrors of paranormal claims
by Bryan Farha & Michael Shermer
- First published:
- 21st century
- Language: English
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 PHENOMENA 16. Deconstructing the Dead CRYPTOZOOLOGY 17. Bigfoot at 50: Evaluating a Half-Century of Bigfoot Evidence ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences, Astrology, and Cryptozoology and Forteana.
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| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
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OpenAlex scholarly book record | 2014-01-01 | University Press of America eBooks | English | — | Unknown |
Subjects
- Social Sciences
- Philosophy
- Psychology
- Astrology
- Medicine
- Theology
- Social Psychology
- Epistemology
- Religious studies
- Political science
- Law
- Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
- Psychoanalysis
- Aesthetics
- Alternative medicine
- Paranormal
- Afterlife
- Faith
- Power (physics)
- Skepticism
- Prayer
- pseudoscience
- Deception
- Confession (law)
- Hubris
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