Hundredth Monkey
Best of Skeptical Inquirer
Published on 17. October 2023
414 pages
978-1-63388-967-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Hundredth Monkey takes its title from philosopher Ron Amundson's expose of the "Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon," a claim about collective consciousness. Forty-three essays by thirty-nine authors, including Isaac Asimov, Martin Gardner, Carl Sagan, Ray Hyman, Paul Kurtz, and James Randi, examine aspects of paranormal and fringe-science beliefs from an authoritative, scientific point of view. The penetrating and entertaining essays, many with timely postscripts, are grouped into nine categories:- Understanding Human Need - Examining Popular Claims- Encouraging Critical Thinking - Medical Controversies- Evaluating the Anomalous Experience - Astrology- Considering Parapsychology - Crashed Saucer Claims- Controversies Within ScienceScientists and scholars discuss the burden of skepticism and the delicate balance between a creative openness to new ideas and the relentless scrutiny of new claims. A classic source book for scientifically responsible explanations of controversies, hoaxes, bizarre mysteries, and popular cultural myths.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
22 BW Photos, 10 Tables
File size
6,72 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-63388-967-5 (9781633889675)
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12/2023
Prometheus Books
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Kendrick Frazier is a veteran science journalist and the longtime editor of the Skeptical Inquirer: The Magazine for Science and Reason. A former Editor of Science News, he is author or editor of ten books, including the anthology Science Under Siege: Defending Science, Exposing Pseudoscience. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Geophysical Union.He is a recipient of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's "In Praise of Reason" Award.
Content
- Intro
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1: Understanding the Human Need
- The Burden of Skepticism
- The Perennial Fringe
- Reflections on the "Transcendental Temptation"
- The Uses of Credulity
- The Appeal of the Occult
- Part 2: Encouraging Critical Thinking
- A Field Guide to Critical Thinking
- Assessing Arguments and Evidence
- Part 3: Evaluating the Anomalous Experience
- The Brain and Consciousness: Implications for Psi Phenomena
- The Aliens Among Us: Hypnotic Regression Revisited
- The Varieties of Alien Experience
- Past-Life Hypnotic Regression: A Critical View
- Past-Tongues Remembered?
- The Myth of Alpha Consciousness
- Pathologies of Science, Precognition, and Modern Psychophysics
- Part 4: Considering Parapsychology
- The Elusive Open Mind: Ten Years of Negative Research in Parapsychology
- Parapsychology, Miracles, and Repeatability
- Ganzfeld Studies
- Improving Human Performance: What About Parapsychology?
- Psi Researchers' Inattention to Conjuring
- The Obligation to Disclose Fraud
- Part 5: Examining Popular Claims
- The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon
- An Investigation of Firewalking
- Incredible Cremations: Investigating Spontaneous Combustion Deaths
- Write and Wrong: The Validity of Graphological Analysis
- Graphology and Personality: "Let the Buyer Beware"
- A Study of the Kirlian Effect
- The Moon Was Full and Nothing Happened
- Testing Psi Claims in China
- Part 6: Medical Controversies
- The Psychopathology of Fringe Medicine
- Folk Remedies and Human Belief-Systems
- Chiropractic: A Skeptical View
- Homeopathy: Is It Medicine?
- Part 7: Astrology
- Does Astrology Need to Be True? Part 1: A Look at the Real Thing
- Does Astrology Need to Be True? Part 2: The Answer Is No
- Double-Blind Test of Astrology Avoids Bias, Still Refutes the Astrological Hypothesis
- Part 8: Crashed-Saucer Claims
- Crash of the Crashed-Saucer Claim
- The MJ-12 Crashed-Saucer Documents: Part 1
- The MJ-12 Crashed-Saucer Documents: Part 2
- New Evidence of MJ-12 Hoax
- Part 9: Controversies Within Science
- Cold Fusion: A Case Study in "Wishful Science"
- Water With Memory? The Dilution Affair
- Science, Mysteries, and the Quest for Evidence
- Relativism in Science
- Recommended Reading
- Dates of Original Publication
- Contributors
