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Description Science Confronts the Paranormal by Kendrick Frazier Prometheus Books | February 1986 | ISBN-10: 0879753145 | PDF/EPUB/MOBI/LIT | 12 mb http://www.amazon.com/Science-Confronts-Paranormal-Kendrick-Frazier/dp/0879753145 Best articles from 5 years of The Skeptical Inquirer. Thirty-eight articles by 34 different authors covering a wide range of paranormal subjects: parapsychology; ESP 'research'; astrology; UFOs; fringe archaeology; creationism; & cryptozoology. A rich source of critical examination of wild claims. This collection of critical essays and investigative reports examines virtually every area of fringe science and the paranormal from a refreshingly scientific and clear-minded viewpoint. The authors are noted scientists, philosophers, psychologists, and writers. All bring to the task a determination to sift sense from nonsense and fact from fiction in an area notorious for misinformation, misperception, self-delusion, and wishful thinking. They do so in a way that highlights the differences between real science and pseudoscience.They've made special efforts first to find the actual facts behind numerous claims that have popular appeal, and then to explain and communicate what scientific investigation and reasoning reveal about them. Subjects treated to incisive and entertaining examination include astrology, ESP, psychic detectives, psychic predictions, parapsychology, remote-viewing, UFOs, creationism, the Shroud of Turin, coincidences, cult archaeology, palmistry and fringe medicine. There are also explorations of the implications of paranormal beliefs for science education. CONTENTS Part I - Assessing Claims of Paranormal Phenomena Parapsychology and Belief 1 - Debunking, Neutrality, and Skepticism in Science 2 - The New Philosophy of Science and the ' Paranormal ' 3 - Parapsychology' s Past Eight Years : A Lack-of Progress Report 4 - Sense and Nonsense in Parapsychology Expectation and Misperception 5 - On Coincidences 6 - Fooling Some of the People All of the Time 7 - Misperception, Folk Belief, and the Occult: A Cognitive Guide to Understanding 8 - The Great Stone Face and Other Nonmysteries 9 - Sir Oliver Lodge and the Spiritualists Claims of Mind and Distance 10 - Outracing the Evidence : The Muddled ' Mind Race ' 11 - Remote Viewing Revisited 12 - Gerard Croiset: Investigation of the Mozart of "Psychic Sleuths " 1 3 - Croiset and Professor Tenhaeff: Discrepancies in Claims of Clairvoyance Claims of Mind and Matter 14 - The Columbus Poltergeist Case 15 - The Project Alpha Experiment 16 - Lessons of a Landmark PK Hoax 18 - How Not to Test a Psychic: The Great SRI Die Mystery Claims of Mind and Body 19 - Iridology: Diagnosis or Delusion? 20 - Palmistry: Science or Hand-Jive? Psychic Flim-Flam: An Example 21 - Prediction After the Fact: Lessons of the Tamara Rand Hoax Part II - Evaluating Fringe Science Astrology 22 - Scientific Tests of Astrology Do Not Support Its Claims 23 - Alternative Explanations in Science: The Extroversion-Introversion . . . 24 - The Alleged Lunar Effect 25 - The Moon Is Acquitted of Murder in Cleveland UFOs 26 - The Claim of a Government UFO Coverup 27 - An Eye-Opening Double Encounter 28 - Hypnosis and UFO Abductions 29 - Hypnosis Gives Rise to Fantasy and Is Not a Truth Serum Fringe Archaeology 30 - Deciphering Ancient America 31 - American Disingenuous : Goodman ' s ' American Genesis ' -A New Chapter in . . 32 - The Nazca Drawings Revisited: Creation of a Full-Sized Duplicate 33 - Science and the Mountain Peak 34 - Creationist Pseudoscience 35 - Paluxy Footprints 36 - The Shroud of Turin: A Critical Appraisal 37 - Shroud Image Is the Work of an Artist Cryptozoology 38 - Sonar and Photographic Searches for the Loch Ness Monster: A Reassessment Sharing Widget |
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