Pseudoscience and Deception

The Smoke and Mirrors of Paranormal Claims

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Pseudoscience and Deception

The Smoke and Mirrors of Paranormal Claims

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Pseudoscience and Deception is a compilation of some of the most eye-opening skeptical articles pertaining to extraordinary claims and pseudoscience. The articles explore paranormal, extraordinary, or fringe-science claims and reveal logical explanations or outline the deceptive tactics involved in convincing the vulnerable. Topics include claims of astrology, psychic ability, alternative medicine, after-death communication, psychotherapy, and pseudoscience. The contributors to this book are among the most accomplished critical thinkers, scientists, and educators in the world and tackle their respective topics from a rational, logical, and skeptical perspective. Most students are seldom excited to study “critical thinking”—with the exception of allegedly paranormal phenomena as the subject matter. Educators must seize this golden opportunity to witness and experience students’ genuine engagement in studying critical thinking.

Table of Contents

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 PHE

Product details

Published Dec 24 2013
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 1
ISBN 9780761879725
Imprint University Press of America
Illustrations 17 b/w illustrations; 4 tables;
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Bryan Farha

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