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catalog abstract ""This newest collection of essays and articles from the Skeptical Inquirer is grouped into nine categories: Science, Imagination, and Responsibility; Science and Antiscience; Science, Pseudoscience, and Pathological Science; Pseudoscience and Pathological Cults; Science and the Psychology of Belief; Psychology and the Claims of Psi; Psychology and the Anomalous Experience; Social Dynamics and Belief; and the Malleability of Memory, Additional topics include science and beauty, creationism, collective hysterias, urban legends, eyewitness testimony, facilitated communication, near-death experiences, and assertions about psychic ability."--Jacket.".
catalog contributor b10759287.
catalog created "1998.".
catalog date "1998".
catalog date "1998.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
catalog description ""This newest collection of essays and articles from the Skeptical Inquirer is grouped into nine categories: Science, Imagination, and Responsibility; Science and Antiscience; Science, Pseudoscience, and Pathological Science; Pseudoscience and Pathological Cults; Science and the Psychology of Belief; Psychology and the Claims of Psi; Psychology and the Anomalous Experience; Social Dynamics and Belief; and the Malleability of Memory, Additional topics include science and beauty, creationism, collective hysterias, urban legends, eyewitness testimony, facilitated communication, near-death experiences, and assertions about psychic ability."--Jacket.".
catalog description "1. Wonder and Skepticism / Carl Sagan -- 2. A Strategy for Saving Science / Leon M. Lederman -- 3. The New Skepticism / Paul Kurtz -- 4. The Crisis in Pre-College Science and Math Education / Glenn T. Seaborg -- 5. Science vs. Beauty? / Martin Gardner -- 6. The Paradox of Knowledge / Lee Loevinger -- 7. The Antiscience Problem / Paul Kurtz -- 8. Knocking Science for Fun and Profit / Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt -- 9. Multicultural Pseudoscience: Spreading Scientific Illiteracy / Bernard Ortiz de Montellano -- 10. How Feminism Is Now Alienating Women from Science / Noretta Koertge -- 11. Physicist Alan Sokal's Hilarious Hoax / Martin Gardner -- 12. Pathological Science: An Update / Alan Cromer -- 13. Severe Flaws in Scientific Study Criticizing Evolution / Dan Larhammar -- 14. Lying About Polygraph Tests / Elie A. Shneour -- 15. Do Honesty Tests Really Measure Honesty? / Scott O. Lilienfeld -- 16. Quantum Quackery / Victor J. Stenger -- ".
catalog description "17. Not-So-Spontaneous Human Combustion / Joe Nickell -- 18. UFO Mythology: The Escape to Oblivion / Paul Kurtz -- 19. Heaven's Gate: The UFO Cult of Bo and Peep / Martin Gardner -- 20. The Belief Engine / James E. Alcock -- 21. How to Sell a Pseudoscience / Anthony R. Pratkanis -- 22. Like Goes with Like: The Role of Representativeness in Paranormal Belief / Thomas Gilovich and Kenneth Savitsky -- 23. The Persistent Popularity of the Paranormal / James Lett -- 24. Eyewitness Testimony and the Paranormal / Richard Wiseman, Matthew Smith and Jeff Wiseman -- 25. Psychic Experiences: Psychic Illusions / Susan Blackmore -- 26. Belief in Astrology: A Test of the Barnum Effect / Christopher C. French, Mandy Fowler and Katy McCarthy [and others] -- 27. Evaluation of the Military's Twenty-Year Program on Psychic Spying / Ray Hyman -- 28. The Evidence for Psychic Functioning: Claims vs. Reality / Ray Hyman -- 29. Psi in Psychology / Susan Blackmore -- ".
catalog description "30. Myths of Subliminal Persuasion: The Cargo-Cult Science of Subliminal Persuasion / Anthony R. Pratkanis -- 31. Subliminal Perception: Facts and Fallacies / Timotby E. Moore -- 32. Psychic Crime Detectives: A New Test for Measuring Their Successes and Failures / Richard Wiseman, Donald West and Roy Stemman -- 33. Near-Death Experiences / Susan Blackmore -- 34. Lucid Dreams / Susan Blackmore -- 35. Night Terrors, Sleep Paralysis, and Devil-Stricken Telephone Cords from Hell / Peter Huston -- 36. Anguished Silence and Helping Hands: Autism and Facilitated Communication / James A. Mulick, John W. Jacobson and Frank H. Kobe -- 37. Why Creationists Don't Go to Psychic Fairs / John H. Taylor, Raymond A. Eve and Francis B. Harrold -- 38. Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia: Notes from a Mind-Control Conference / Evan Harrington -- 39. The West Bank Collective Hysteria Episode / James R. Stewart -- ".
catalog description "40. Police Pursuit of Satanic Crime The Satanic Conspiracy and Urban Legends / Robert D. Hicks -- 41. The Spread of Satanic-Cult Rumors / Jeffrey S. Victor -- 42. "Lights Out": A Faxlore Phenomenon / Jon Harold Brunvand -- 43. Staking Claims: Vampires of Folklore and Legend / Paul Barber -- 44. Remembering Dangerously / Elizabeth F. Loftus -- 45. RMT: Repressed Memory Therapy / Martin Gardner -- 46. Measuring the Prevalence of False Memories / Ted Goertzel.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
catalog extent "426 p. :".
catalog hasFormat "Encounters with the paranormal.".
catalog identifier "157392203X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
catalog isFormatOf "Encounters with the paranormal.".
catalog issued "1998".
catalog issued "1998.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books,".
catalog relation "Encounters with the paranormal.".
catalog subject "133 21".
catalog subject "BF1045.S33 E53 1998".
catalog subject "Parapsychology and science.".
catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
catalog tableOfContents "1. Wonder and Skepticism / Carl Sagan -- 2. A Strategy for Saving Science / Leon M. Lederman -- 3. The New Skepticism / Paul Kurtz -- 4. The Crisis in Pre-College Science and Math Education / Glenn T. Seaborg -- 5. Science vs. Beauty? / Martin Gardner -- 6. The Paradox of Knowledge / Lee Loevinger -- 7. The Antiscience Problem / Paul Kurtz -- 8. Knocking Science for Fun and Profit / Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt -- 9. Multicultural Pseudoscience: Spreading Scientific Illiteracy / Bernard Ortiz de Montellano -- 10. How Feminism Is Now Alienating Women from Science / Noretta Koertge -- 11. Physicist Alan Sokal's Hilarious Hoax / Martin Gardner -- 12. Pathological Science: An Update / Alan Cromer -- 13. Severe Flaws in Scientific Study Criticizing Evolution / Dan Larhammar -- 14. Lying About Polygraph Tests / Elie A. Shneour -- 15. Do Honesty Tests Really Measure Honesty? / Scott O. Lilienfeld -- 16. Quantum Quackery / Victor J. Stenger -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "17. Not-So-Spontaneous Human Combustion / Joe Nickell -- 18. UFO Mythology: The Escape to Oblivion / Paul Kurtz -- 19. Heaven's Gate: The UFO Cult of Bo and Peep / Martin Gardner -- 20. The Belief Engine / James E. Alcock -- 21. How to Sell a Pseudoscience / Anthony R. Pratkanis -- 22. Like Goes with Like: The Role of Representativeness in Paranormal Belief / Thomas Gilovich and Kenneth Savitsky -- 23. The Persistent Popularity of the Paranormal / James Lett -- 24. Eyewitness Testimony and the Paranormal / Richard Wiseman, Matthew Smith and Jeff Wiseman -- 25. Psychic Experiences: Psychic Illusions / Susan Blackmore -- 26. Belief in Astrology: A Test of the Barnum Effect / Christopher C. French, Mandy Fowler and Katy McCarthy [and others] -- 27. Evaluation of the Military's Twenty-Year Program on Psychic Spying / Ray Hyman -- 28. The Evidence for Psychic Functioning: Claims vs. Reality / Ray Hyman -- 29. Psi in Psychology / Susan Blackmore -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "30. Myths of Subliminal Persuasion: The Cargo-Cult Science of Subliminal Persuasion / Anthony R. Pratkanis -- 31. Subliminal Perception: Facts and Fallacies / Timotby E. Moore -- 32. Psychic Crime Detectives: A New Test for Measuring Their Successes and Failures / Richard Wiseman, Donald West and Roy Stemman -- 33. Near-Death Experiences / Susan Blackmore -- 34. Lucid Dreams / Susan Blackmore -- 35. Night Terrors, Sleep Paralysis, and Devil-Stricken Telephone Cords from Hell / Peter Huston -- 36. Anguished Silence and Helping Hands: Autism and Facilitated Communication / James A. Mulick, John W. Jacobson and Frank H. Kobe -- 37. Why Creationists Don't Go to Psychic Fairs / John H. Taylor, Raymond A. Eve and Francis B. Harrold -- 38. Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia: Notes from a Mind-Control Conference / Evan Harrington -- 39. The West Bank Collective Hysteria Episode / James R. Stewart -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "40. Police Pursuit of Satanic Crime The Satanic Conspiracy and Urban Legends / Robert D. Hicks -- 41. The Spread of Satanic-Cult Rumors / Jeffrey S. Victor -- 42. "Lights Out": A Faxlore Phenomenon / Jon Harold Brunvand -- 43. Staking Claims: Vampires of Folklore and Legend / Paul Barber -- 44. Remembering Dangerously / Elizabeth F. Loftus -- 45. RMT: Repressed Memory Therapy / Martin Gardner -- 46. Measuring the Prevalence of False Memories / Ted Goertzel.".
catalog title "Encounters with the paranormal : science, knowledge, and belief / edited by Kendrick Frazier.".
catalog type "text".