From Abracadabra to Zombies
Book
Reviews
R & R
Recommendations & Rejections
Recommendations
How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman, M.D. (Houghton Mifflin 2007)
The Cure Within: A
History of Mind-Body Medicine
by Anne
Harrington (W. W. Norton 2008).
Snake Oil Science: The Truth
about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
by R. Barker Bausell
(Oxford 2007).
The March of Unreason:
Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism
by Dick Taverne (Oxford
2006).
The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins (Houghton Mifflin 2006).
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
by Susan Jacoby (Owl Books 2004).
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
by Mary Roach (W. W. Norton
2005).
The
Power of Persuasion - How We're Bought and Sold
by
Robert Levine
(John Wiley & Sons 2003),
Don't Get Taken! - Bunco and Bunkum Exposed - How to Protect Yourself
by Robert A. Steiner
(Wide-Awake Books 1989), and
The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading
(third edition)
by Ian Rowland
(Ian Rowland Limited 2002).
Bad
Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the
Moon Landing "Hoax"
by Philip C. Plait (John Wiley & Sons 2002).
Into
the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press
edited by Kristina Borjesson (Prometheus Books 2002).
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological
History of North America and Its Peoples
by Tim Flannery
(Atlantic Monthly Press 2001).
Madness on the Couch - Blaming the Victim in the
Heyday of Psychoanalysis
by Edward Dolnick (Simon & Schuster 1998).
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition,
and Other Confusions of Our Time
by Michael Shermer (W H Freeman & Co. 1997).
The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal
edited by Gordon Stein, Ph.D.
(Prometheus Books 1996).
Multiple Identities & False Memories
by Nicholas F. Spanos (American Psychological Association 1996 ).
Searching for Memory - the brain, the mind,
and the past
by Daniel L. Schacter (Basic Books 1996).
Not Out of Africa - How Afrocentricism Became
an Excuse to Teach Myth as History
by Mary Lefkowitz (Basic Books 1996).
The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle
in the Dark
by Carl Sagan (Random House 1995).
"Crazy" Therapies: What are they? Do
they work?
by Margaret Thaler Singer and Janja Lalich (Jossey-Bass Publishers
1996).
An Unquiet Mind - A Memoir of Moods and
Madness
by Kay Redfield Jamison (Vintage Books 1997).
Rejections
The
Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena
by Dean Radin
(HarperOne 1997)
Ghost Hunters -
William James and the Hunt for Scientific Proof
of Life After Death
by Deborah Blum (Penguin Press 2006).
False Profits: Seeking Financial and
Spiritual Deliverance in Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Schemes
by Robert L. Fitzpatrick and Joyce Reynolds (Herald Press 1997).
The Rediscovery of the Human Soul
by L. Ron Hubbard (Scientology Press ? 1996).
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