Encounters With the Paranormal: Best of Skeptical Inquirer

By Kendrick Frazier

Book Overview

Do polygraph tests really detect lies? Can memories be implanted? Is subliminal perception a reality? What is 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 antiscience in our universities and from 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 Larhammar, Leon M. Lederman, James Lett, Norman Levitt, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Elizabeth Loftus, Lee Loevinger, Katy McCarthy, Joe Nickell, Bernard Oritz de Montellano, Debbie Peers, Anthony Pratkanis, Carl Sagan, Kenneth Savitsky, Glenn Seaborg, Elie Shneour, Matthew Smith, Victor Stenger, Jeffrey F. Victor, Jeff Wiseman, and Richard Wiseman.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163388970X
• ISBN13: 9781633889705
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Handy Reference for Science, Knowledge and Belief

This book is an anthology of some of the most outstanding and excellent Skeptical Inquirer articles from 1991-1997. The title "Encounters with the Paranormal" may not be the as appropriate as its subtitle "Science, Knowledge, and Belief" especially in view of part one which is entitled "Science, Imagination, and Responsibility". But with its eight other parts including "Science, Pseudoscience, and Pathological Science", Psychology and the Claims of Psi", "Social Dynamics and Belief", "The Malleability of Memory", this books covers a lot of ground indeed. It's particularly useful for finding out quickly yet comprehensively about specific paranormal issues. A great buy for those of us with limited attention spans.