
Science Confronts the Paranormal
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- Science Confrontsthe Paranormal
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Assessing Claims of Paranormal Phenomena
- Parapsychology and Belief
- 1 Debunking, Neutrality, and Skepticism in Science
- 2 The New Philosophy of Science and the "Paranormal
- 3 Parapsychology's Past Eight Years: A Lack-of-Progress Report
- 4 Sense and Nonsense in Parapsychology
- Expectation and Misperception
- 5 On Coincidences
- 6 Fooling Some of the People All of the Time
- 7 Misperception, Folk Belief, and the Occult: A Cognitive Guide to Understanding
- 8 The Great Stone Face and Other Nonmysteries
- 9 Sir Oliver Lodge and the Spiritualists
- Claims of Mind and Distance
- 10 Outracing the Evidence: The Muddled "Mind Race
- 11 Remote Viewing Revisited
- 12 Gerard Croiset: Investigation of the Mozart of "Psychic Sleuths
- 13 Gerard Croiset and Professor Tenhaeff: Discrepancies in Claims of Clairvoyance
- Claims of Mind and Matter
- 14 The Columbus Poltergeist Case
- 15 The Project Alpha Experiment
- 16 Lessons of a Landmark PK Hoax
- 17 Magicians in the Psi-Lab: Many Misconceptions
- 18 How Not to Test a Psychic: The Great SRI Die Mystery
- Claims of Mind and Body
- 19 Iridology: Diagnosis or Delusion?
- 20 Palmistry: Science or Hand-Jive?
- Psychic Flim-Flam: An Example
- 21 Prediction After the Fact: Lessons of the Tamara Rand Hoax
- Part II: Evaluating Fringe Science
- Astrology
- 22 Scientific Tests of Astrology Do Not Support its Claims
- 23 Alternative Explanations in Science: The Extroversion-Introversion Astrological Effect
- 24 The Alleged Lunar Effect
- 25 The Moon is Acquitted of Murder in Cleveland
- UFOs
- 26 The Claim of a Government UFO Coverup
- 27 An Eye-Opening Double Encounter
- 28 Hypnosis and UFO Abductions
- 29 Hypnosis Gives Rise to Fantasy and Is Not a Truth Serum
- Fringe Archaeology
- 30 Deciphering Ancient America
- 31 American Disingenuous: Goodman's "American Genesis" - A New Chapter in Cult Archaeology
- 32 The Nazca Drawings Revisited: Creation of a Full-Sized Duplicate
- Creationism and Shroud Science
- 33 Science and the Mountain Peak
- 34 Creationist Pseudoscience
- 35 Paluxy Footprints
- 36 The Shroud of Turin: A Critical Appraisal
- 37 Shroud Image Is the Work of an Artist
- Cryptozoology
- 38 Sonar and Photographic Searches for the Loch Ness Monster: A Reassessment
- Recommended Reading
- Dates of Original Publication
- List of Contributors
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