A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology

Name: A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology
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By: Paul Kurtz (Editor)

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Paperback | 30 November 1985 | Edition Number 1

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A comprehensive collection of the world's leading skeptics, combining a detailed history of parapsychology and psychic research with a review of the current status of the field.

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Non-Fiction Mind, Body, Spirit Psychic Powers & Psychic Phenomena Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies General Studies Psychology Parapsychological Studies

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction More Than a Century of Psychical Research	p. xi
Contributors	p. xxv
A Critical Historical Overview of Parapsychology	p. 2
The Search for a Demonstration of ESP	p. 97
Psychokinesis: Fifty Years Afterward	p. 129
Modern Occultism	p. 147
The Need for Responsibility in Parapsychology: My Sixty Years in Psychical Research	p. 161
The Argument from Fraud	p. 174
Spiritualists, Mediums, and Psychics: Some Evidence of Fraud	p. 176
Spiritualism Exposed: Margaret Fox Kane Confesses to Fraud	p. 225
Confessions of a Telepathist: Thirty-Year Hoax Exposed	p. 235
Metapsychics and the Incredulity of Psychologists: Psychical Research before 1927	p. 241
Fraudulent Children in Psychical Research	p. 275
The Establishment of Data Manipulation in the Soal-Shackleton Experiments	p. 287
J. B. Rhine and the Levy Scandal	p. 313
A Note on Borley Rectory: """"The Most Haunted House in England""""	p. 327
The Role of Conjurers in Psi Research	p. 339
Magicians in the Psi Lab: Many Misconceptions	p. 351
Parapsychologists Reply	p. 356
What Is Your Counter-Explanation? a Plea to Skeptics to Think Again	p. 358
Parapsychology and Its Critics	p. 379
The Adventures of a Psi-Inhibitory Experimenter	p. 425
Skeptical Literature on Parapsychology: an Annotated Bibliography Gerd H. HöVelmann with	p. 449
Annotation to the Annotated Bibliography	p. 490
Parapsychology: Science or Pseudoscience	p. 494
Why Parapsychology Demands a Skeptical Response	p. 496
Is Parapsychology a Science?	p. 503
Parapsychology: Science or Pseudoscience?	p. 519
Parapsychology as a """"Spiritual"""" Science	p. 537
Statistical Problems in ESP Research	p. 568
Parapsychology and Quantum Mechanics	p. 585
Detective Work in Parapsychology	p. 599
Can Meta-Analysis Resolve the ESP Controversy?	p. 611
Reflections on Psychic Sleuths Piet Hein Hoebens with	p. 630
Evidence for Survival from Near-Death Experiences? a Critical Appraisal	p. 645
Magical Thinking and Parapsychology	p. 685
Index	p. 700
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