Paranormal Borderlands of Science

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Paperback | 1 June 1981 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Non-Fiction Mind, Body, Spirit Psychic Powers & Psychic Phenomena Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies General Studies Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Clinical Psychology Unexplained Phenomena & the Paranormal Science Science in General

Philosophy of Science

Introduction	p. vii
Is Parapsychology a Science?	p. 5
Science, Intuition, and Esp	p. 24
Believing in Esp: Effects of Dehoaxing	p. 32
Superstitions Old and New	p. 46
Einstein and Esp	p. 60
Belief in Esp Among Psychologists	p. 66
Do Fairies Exist?	p. 68
Cold Reading: How to Convince Strangers That You Know All About Them	p. 79
Sleight of Tongue	p. 97
Cold Reading Revisited	p. 106
The Nonpsychic Powers of Uri Geller	p. 113
New Evidence in the Uri Geller Matter	p. 122
Examination of the Claims of Suzie Cottrell	p. 128
A Test of 'Psychic' Photography	p. 135
The Extraordinary Mental Bending of Professor Taylor	p. 142
Downfall of a Would-Be Psychic	p. 148
Psychology and Near-Death Experiences	p. 153
The Case of the Amityville Horror	p. 170
Betty Through the Looking-Glass	p. 179
Evaluating a Pseudoscience	p. 191
Biorhythm Theory: a Critical Review	p. 208
Asimov's Corollary	p. 223
A Statistical Test of Sun-Sign Astrology	p. 235
An Empirical Test of Popular Astrology	p. 241
The Moon and the Maternity Ward	p. 263
Results of U.S. Test of the 'Mars Effect'	p. 272
Critical Reading, Careful Writing, and the Bermuda Triangle	p. 283
Cattle Mutilations: an Episode of Collective Delusion	p. 288
A Controlled Test of Dowsing Abilities	p. 300
Von Däniken's Chariots: a Primer in the Art of Cooked Science	p. 307
Von Däniken's Golden Gods	p. 318
Chariots of the Gullible	p. 332
Investigating the Sirius Mystery	p. 348
Anthropology Beyond the Fringe: Ancient Inscriptions, Early Man, and Scientific Method	p. 357
Psychic Archaeology: the Anatomy of Irrationalist Prehistoric Studies	p. 367
Science and Evolution in the Public Eye	p. 379
Scientists and Velikovsky	p. 393
The Velikovsky Affair	p. 401
Ideas in Collision	p. 401
Passions and Purposes: a Perspective	p. 409
the Distortions Continue	p. 413
Tunguska Echoes	p. 420
Nasa, the White House, and Ufos	p. 431
Astronaut """"Ufo"""" Sightings	p. 440
Ufos, the Cia, and the New York Times	p. 448
A Controlled Ufo Hoax: Some Lessons	p. 453
The Persian Gulf Ufo: Fiery End to Drama	p. 461
The Semantics of Ufos	p. 464
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