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Titolo: | Pseudoscience and deception : the smoke and mirrors of paranormal claims / / edited by Bryan Farha ; foreword by Michael Shermer |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (195 p.) |
Disciplina: | 130 |
Soggetto topico: | Parapsychology |
Parapsychology - Investigation | |
Deception | |
Persona (resp. second.): | FarhaBryan |
ShermerMichael | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
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 | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Pseudoscience and deception |
ISBN: | 0-7618-6293-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825140203321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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