AUTHOR:George O. Abell and Barry Singer, eds.
CATEGORY:general
COMMENT:Essays by B. Singer (errors of perception and inference, "double standards," Kirlian photography), D. Cohen (monsters), Galston & Slayman (secret life of plants), M. Gardner (paraphysics), G. Abell (astrology, full moon), Khalil & Kurucz (biorhythms), R. Hyman (psi), I. Asimov, R.K. Siegel (life after death), W.A. Nolan (psychic healing), J. Randi (trickery), C. Sagan (Velikovsky), E.C. Krupp (pyramids, Atlantis, ancient astronauts), L. Kusche (Bermuda triangle), P. Klass (UFOs), F.D. Drake (intelligent life in the universe). Good source for concise expositions of skeptical points of view in the early 80's, much of it quite applicable at the present.
DATE:19980922
KEYWORDS:astrology biorhythms conjuring cryptozoology geographical paraphysics psi psychology quackery survival UFO velikovsky
MISC:414p. (432)
PUBLISHER:Scribners
SUBMITADDR:bibliographer@csicop.org
SUBMITNAME:Taner Edis
TITLE:Science And The Paranormal: Probing the Existence of the Supernatural
YEAR:1981 (1986)