Debunked!

ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience

By: Georges Charpak, Henri Broch, Bart K. Holland (Translator)

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Hardcover | 14 June 2004

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Can you walk over red-hot charcoal without burning your feet? Appear to stop the beating of your heart? Bend spoons using the power of your mind? In Debunked Nobel Prize winner Georges Charpak and physics professor Henri Broch team up to show you the tricks of the trade and sleight of hand that keep astrologers, TV psychics, and spoon benders in business.

Using only the simplest of science, the authors explore the effectiveness of horoscopes--the blander the better--and why, with a television audience in the millions, any strange, unlikely prediction is almost certain to come true. If such insider information does not impress your colleagues, why not pierce your tongue with a skewer or demonstrate your eerie powers by using telepathy and the telephone to get a distant friend to intuit the number and suit of a card picked at random. Charpak and Broch show you how.

Not merely an expose of magic tricks, this book demonstrates how pseudoscientists use science, statistics, and psychology to bamboozle an audience--sometimes for fun, sometimes for profit. During the most scientifically advanced period in human history, belief in the paranormal and the supernatural is alarmingly common. Entertaining and enlightening, Debunked is the antidote, vigorously asserting the virtues of doubt, skepticism, curiosity, and scientific knowledge. This lucid translation makes the arguments clear, understandable, and a pleasure to read.

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Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Alternative Belief Systems Occult Studies Science Science in General Impact of Science & Technology on Society Psychology Parapsychological Studies Mind, Body, Spirit Psychic Powers & Psychic Phenomena Mysticism, Magic & Occult Interests

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Translator's Preface	p. vii
Prologue: Sorcerers and Scientists	p. xi
The Early Scientists: Sorcerers, High Priests, and Astrologers	p. xi
The Human Soul Is Capable of Repentance	p. xii
Science Turns the World Upside Down and Can Endanger Life Itself	p. xiii
Our Amazing Ancestors, the Cavemen	p. xvi
Earthlings, Radioactive from Birth	p. xix
We Sail Away on an Ocean of Ignorance	p. xxi
The First Steps in the Initiation	p. 1
Your Initiation Begins	p. 1
Truth Is Drawn from a Well	p. 1
The Precession of the Equinoxes	p. 8
Personal Experience	p. 11
Practice Telepathy!	p. 19
Astonishing Feats, Performed Effortlessly and Painlessly	p. 25
Walking on Fire	p. 37
Bending Metal	p. 41
Amazing Coincidences	p. 45
Freaks of Nature	p. 45
Psychokinesis? Your Turn to Try!	p. 46
The "Small Effect Illusion"	p. 49
It's a Paradox, You Say?	p. 52
Earthquake in Astroland	p. 59
Premonition?	p. 61
Solar Halos, Comets, and Other Signs from Above	p. 62
Comparing Risks	p. 65
Looking for Meaning	p. 67
Internal, External, or Both?	p. 70
Let's Play Detective	p. 71
Elementary, My Dear Watson	p. 71
Pendulum Locator and Divining Rod: Old Hat	p. 72
The Mystery of the Sarcophagus at Arles-sur-Tech	p. 84
Radioactivity, or the Devil Gets into the Font of Holy Water	p. 100
A Funny Thesis	p. 111
The Right to Dreams and Clarity	p. 113
A Knee-jerk Reaction	p. 113
From Artisans to Multinationals	p. 114
Rationality and the Construction of Beliefs	p. 115
The Rise of the Occult	p. 116
A Paradoxical Situation	p. 118
Reason and Sensation	p. 120
Democracy Imperiled	p. 121
A New Millennium Dawns	p. 123
All Ideas Are Not Equally Valid	p. 124
Scientists and Journalists: On the Same Side of the Battle	p. 125
It's Never Too Late	p. 127
Powerful Armies Can Let Themselves Be Fooled	p. 128
Crucial Choices for the Planet Are at Stake	p. 129
How to Calculate Probabilities	p. 133
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