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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Pseudoscience and deception : the smoke and mirrors of paranormal claims / / edited by Bryan Farha ; foreword by Michael Shermer"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2014"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2014"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"0-7618-6293-5"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (195 p.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"130"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Parapsychology"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Parapsychology - Investigation"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Deception"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; I: Critical Thought about Strange Things; 1 Why Smart People Believe Weird Things; 2 How to Argue; II: Psychic Phenomena & Fortune-Telling; 3 Cold Reading: How to Convince Strangers That You Know All About Them; 4 Long Island Chicanery; III: Science/Health Claims; 5 Why Bogus Therapies Often Seem to Work; 6 Power Balance Products; 7 Consensus on Climate Change; 8 Why Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis Is Worthless; IV: Out of This World; 9 The Case For and Against Astrology; 10 Looking Up to Logic; 11 The Lunar Effect and Confirmation Bias"]
[{"$nulls":4},"V: 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 Contributors"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","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."]