Do polygraph tests really detect lies? Can memories be implanted? What can be learned from Heaven's Gate? Is subliminal perception a reality? What's the relationship between science and belief?
Experts in the fields of physical/biological science, psychology philosophy, social science, and forensic science bring their perspectives to controversies that affect the way we think and how we perceive reality and the natural world. From science's influence on beauty to anti-science in our universities and UFO mythologies to near-death experiences, this volume spans the gamut of pseudoscience today.
Contributors include James Alcock, Susan Blackmore, Alan Cromer, Mandy Fowler, Christopher C. French, Martin Gardner, Thomas Gilovich, Theodore Goertzel, Paul R. Gross, Peter Huston, Ray Hyman, Noretta Koertge, Paul Kurtz, Dan Larharnmar, Leon M. Lederman, Scott 0. LillenfeId, James Lett, Norman Levitt, Scott O. Lillenfeld, Elizabeth Loftus, Lee Loevinger, Katy McCarthy Joe Nickell, Bernard Critz de Montellano, Debbie Peers, Anthony Pratkanis, Carl Sagan, Kenneth Savitsky, Glenn Seaborg, Elie Shneour. Matthew Smith, Victor Stenger, Jeffrey F. Victor, Jeff Wisernan, and Richard Wiseman.
Kendrick Frazier (Albuquerque, NM) is a board member of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of the Paranormal, editor of The Skeptical Inquirer and former editor of Science News.
Est 450 pages ISBN 1-57392-203-X
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