02952nam 2200589 450 991078787830332120230803195449.00-7618-6293-5(CKB)2670000000544754(EBL)1634168(SSID)ssj0001212540(PQKBManifestationID)11720684(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001212540(PQKBWorkID)11210518(PQKB)11076178(MiAaPQ)EBC1634168(Au-PeEL)EBL1634168(CaPaEBR)ebr10852633(CaONFJC)MIL584931(OCoLC)874320286(EXLCZ)99267000000054475420140405h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPseudoscience and deception the smoke and mirrors of paranormal claims /edited by Bryan Farha ; foreword by Michael ShermerLanham, Maryland :University Press of America, Inc.,2014.©20141 online resource (195 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7618-6292-7 Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; I: Critical Thought about Strange Things; 1 Why Smart People Believe Weird Things; 2 How to Argue; II: Psychic Phenomena & Fortune-Telling; 3 Cold Reading: How to Convince Strangers That You Know All About Them; 4 Long Island Chicanery; III: Science/Health Claims; 5 Why Bogus Therapies Often Seem to Work; 6 Power Balance Products; 7 Consensus on Climate Change; 8 Why Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis Is Worthless; IV: Out of This World; 9 The Case For and Against Astrology; 10 Looking Up to Logic; 11 The Lunar Effect and Confirmation BiasV: Religion & Faith Healing12 Prayer and Healing; 13 Confessions of a Skeptic; VI: Psychotherapy; 14 Pseudoscience in Contemporary Clinical Psychology; VII: Numerical Anomalies; 15 Number manipulation; VIII: Afterlife and Related Phenomena; 16 Deconstructing the Dead; IX: Cryptozoology; 17 Bigfoot at 50; About the ContributorsPseudoscience 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.ParapsychologyCase studiesParapsychologyInvestigationCase studiesDeceptionParapsychologyParapsychologyInvestigationDeception.130Farha BryanShermer MichaelMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787878303321Pseudoscience and deception3864322UNINA