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Encounters with the Paranormal
Science, Knowledge and Belief
[ Purchase ]Do polygraph tests really detect lies? Can memories be repressed and then recovered? Can false memories be implanted? Why do conspiracy theories appeal to so many? Have there been outbreaks of ritualistic satanic cult crimes? Do psychics exist? What are the lessons of the Heaven's Gate cult suicides?
New from Prometheus Books, Encounters with the Paranormal explores these and scores of other questions that arise when science and knowledge collide with belief. Forty-five noted authors (including two Nobel laureates and many distinguished scholars) from the physical and biological sciences, psychology, and philosophy, as well as the social and forensic sciences bring their unique theory of inquiry to bear upon controversies that continually make the news, affect what we think we know, and shape our (mis)conceptions of reality and the natural world.
This newest collection of essays and articles from the Skeptical Inquirer is grouped into nine categories: Science, Imagination, and Responsibility; Science and Antiscience; Science, Pseudoscience, and Pathological Cults; Science and Psychology of Belief; Psychology and the Claims of Psi; Psychology and the Anomalous Experience; Social Dynamics and Belief; and the Malleability of Memory. Additional topics include science and beauty, creationism, collective hysterias, urban legends, eyewitness testimony, facilitated communication, near-death experiences, and assertions about psychic ability.
Contributors include: James E. Alcock, Paul Barber, Susan Blackmore, Jan Harold Brunvand, Alan Cromer, Martin Gardner, Thomas Gilovich, Ted Goertzel, Paul Gross, Robert D. Hicks, Ray Hyman, Peter Huston, Noretta Keortge, Paul Kurtz, Dan Larhammar, Leon M. Lederman, James Lett, Norman Levitt, Elizabeth F. Loftus, Timothy E. Moore, Joe Nickell, Anthony Pratkanis, Carl Sagan, Glenn T. Seaborg, Victor J. Stenger, Jeffrey S. Victor, and Richard Wiseman.
Ken Frazier is a board member of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation
of Claims of the Paranormal, editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, and
former editor of Science News. He is available for interview.
Contact Matt Nisbet at 716-636-1425.
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