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- catalog abstract "During the most scientifically advanced period in human history, belief in the paranormal and the supernatural is alarmingly common. Nobel Prize winner Georges Charpak and physics professor Henri Broch team up to show you the tricks of the trade and sleight of hand that keep astrologers, TV psychics, and spoon benders in business. Using only the simplest of science, the authors explore the effectiveness of horoscopes--the blander the better--and why, with a television audience in the millions, any strange, unlikely prediction is almost certain to come true. Not merely an exposé of magic tricks, this book demonstrates how pseudoscientists use science, statistics, and psychology to bamboozle an audience--sometimes for fun, sometimes for profit. Entertaining and enlightening, Debunked! is the antidote, vigorously asserting the virtues of doubt, skepticism, curiosity, and scientific knowledge.--Publisher information.".
- catalog alternative "Devenez sorciers, devenez savants. English".
- catalog contributor b13252369.
- catalog contributor b13252370.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description "During the most scientifically advanced period in human history, belief in the paranormal and the supernatural is alarmingly common. Nobel Prize winner Georges Charpak and physics professor Henri Broch team up to show you the tricks of the trade and sleight of hand that keep astrologers, TV psychics, and spoon benders in business. Using only the simplest of science, the authors explore the effectiveness of horoscopes--the blander the better--and why, with a television audience in the millions, any strange, unlikely prediction is almost certain to come true. Not merely an exposé of magic tricks, this book demonstrates how pseudoscientists use science, statistics, and psychology to bamboozle an audience--sometimes for fun, sometimes for profit. Entertaining and enlightening, Debunked! is the antidote, vigorously asserting the virtues of doubt, skepticism, curiosity, and scientific knowledge.--Publisher information.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The first steps in the initiation -- Amazing coincidences -- Let's play detective -- The right to dreams and clarity -- A new millennium dawns.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 136 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801878675 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog subject "130 22".
- catalog subject "BF1409.5 .C4313 2004".
- catalog subject "Occultism and science.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The first steps in the initiation -- Amazing coincidences -- Let's play detective -- The right to dreams and clarity -- A new millennium dawns.".
- catalog title "Debunked! : esp, telekinesis, and other pseudoscience / Georges Charpak and Henri Broch ; translated by Bart K. Holland.".
- catalog title "Devenez sorciers, devenez savants. English".
- catalog type "text".