Paranormal Borderlands of Science (eBook)

Best of Skeptical Inquirer

Kendrick Frazier (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
484 Seiten
Prometheus (Verlag)
978-1-63388-963-7 (ISBN)

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Headlines and television news reports feature accounts of reincarnation, the predictions of astrologers, and psychic miracles. Citizens report UFO sightings. Police departments call on psychics to provide clues in baffling crimes. From every available information source, the public is bombarded with unsubstantiated claims of paranormal phenomena. How much of the evidence is reliable? What is the truth behind these claims?Paranormal Borderlands of Science is an exciting, well-informed examination of the most publicized and exotic claims of astrology, ESP, psychokinesis, precognition, UFOs, biorhythms, and other phenomena. Written by respected psychologists, astronomers and other scientists, philosophers, investigative journalists, and magicians, the 47 articles in this superb collection present a skeptical treatment of pseudoscientific claims - an aspect often sorely neglected in sensationalized media reports.This book is an effort to help readers sort fact from fiction and sense from nonsense among the astonishing variety of assertions labeled paranormal. Never before published in book form, the essays in this anthology originally appeared in the Skeptical Inquirer, a leading magazine devoted to the critical investigation of pseudoscience from a scientific viewpoint.Among the contributors are: Isaac Asimov (distinguished science fiction author), Martin Gardner (Scientific American columnist), James Randi (The Amazing Randi), Philip Klass (noted UFO skeptic), Scot Morris (Omni), and James Oberg (NASA).An essential contribution to skeptical literature, this book will be of lasting value to all those wishing to balance the case for paranormal claims by reading the dissenting critics.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 76 Illustrations including: - 19 Black & White Illustrations; - 23 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 33 Tables; - 1 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: amityville horror • Anthropology • Antiscience • Astrology • Benjamin Radford • Bermuda Triangle • Biorhythms • Biorhythm theory • Claims of psi • Cold Reading • Conspiracy theories • critical thinking • Cult archaeology and biology • Debunking theories • disinformation • ESP • Extraterrestrial • Fringe Science • Geller-Type phenomena • James Alcock • Kendrick Frazier • Logical explanation • Logical thinking • Mars Effect • misinformation • Modern Science • Nasa • Near Death Experiences • Paranormal • Paranormal belief • Paranormal Borderlands of Science • Paranormal phenomenon • Paranormal science • Parapsychology • Paul Kurtz • pop science • Pseudoscience • Psi phnomenon • Psychics • Psychology • Science and beliefs • science and evolution • Science and psychology • Science and skepticism • Science Journalism • science research • Science vs pseudoscience • scientific inquiry • scientific skepticism • Shadows of Science • Sirius mystery • Skeptical Inquirer • Skeptical Inquirer magazine • Space theories • superstitions • UFO hoax • UFOs • Urban Legends • Uri Geller • Velikovsky
• ISBN-10: 1-63388-963-7 / 1633889637
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63388-963-7 / 9781633889637