From: wsadjw@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Jan Willem Nienhuys)
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
Subject: skeptic book at a special price
Date: 27 Sep 92 13:39:29 GMT
Reply-To: wsadjw@urc.tue.nl
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands


Last opportunity to profit from the special pre-publication price!
Announcing a book:

SCIENCE OR PSEUDO?  THE MARS EFFECT AND OTHER CLAIMS
Proceedings of the Third EuroSkeptics Congress
October 4-5, 1991, Amsterdam
Edited by J.W. Nienhuys (yours truly)
ISBN 90-73517-08-7

A table of contents of this interesting 0.5 MB text appears at the
end of this post. Read articles by Kurtz, Hines and Randi.
The inside story on crop circles.  The last word about the famous
Mars effect of Gauquelin and the amazing defense of Madame 
Francoise Schneider-Gauquelin!  The saga of a successful rebuttal
of a Creationist claim, the value of psychotherapy and what you
wanted to know about quantum mechanics (but were afraid to ask).

This book will be published by Stichting Skepsis. It will cost
DFL 25.-;  I will bring the text to the printer on October 9, 1992,
and two weeks after that the book will be ready.  I can offer a
pre-publication price of DFL 17.50 for any foreigner (= someone
not resident in The Netherlands) whose order is in my possession
before October 9.  Price includes shipping.
Air mail from almost anywhere takes at most a week, so if you are
quick you can still profit from this offer!

Payment by credit card: all major cards accepted (VISA, Master,
Eurocard, Diners Club, American Express).  I will need your
card number, expiration date, your signature, and a statement
that you want that book for DFL 17.50.

Payment by Eurocheque, made out in DFL is also possible.

Payment by cash: U.S.$ 11.- 
Note: a british pound is about DFL 2.85.

NO personal checks please; international banking costs are prohibitive
for such small amounts.


J.W. Nienhuys,
Dommelseweg 1A
5581 VA Waalre
The Netherlands

e-mail: wsadjw@urc.tue.nl



Table of Contents
Preface	v
*Paul Kurtz:
In the Eye of the Beholder: The Psychology of Paranormal Belief	1
*J. Hilgevoord:
The world according to Quantum Mechanics	11
*Steven F. Hartkamp:
Should the state interfere in paranormal practices?	19
*Rob H. Nanninga:
Skeptics and parapsychologists.  Let's cooperate!	33
*Wim Betz:
The Struggle of Alternative Medicine for Recognition	42
*M. Heap:
Science in Everyday Life	49
*Terence Hines:
Placebo Practioners.  
Psychotherapists as Native Healers from Park Avenue to Borneo	59
*Michael E. Howgate:
Looking for a Witness of the Flood	69
*Claudio Benski:
A Pedagogical Project of Paranormal Research in an Engineering School	77
*Robert Koenig, Juergen Moll, James Randi, Amardeo Sarma:
A Test of Dowsing Claims in Kassel.  Aims, Methods, Results	85
*Martin Hempstead:
Crop Circle Expertise	93
*J.W. Nienhuys:
Introduction to the Mars Effect	112
*Cornelis de Jager and Rieks Jager:
Spurious periodicities in planetary correlations and the Mars effect	129
*P.H. Jongbloet:
Circannual and Circadian Biological Rhythms in Relation to Eminency	148
*Carl E. Koppeschaar:
The Mars effect unriddled	162
*Suitbert Ertel:
Mars effect survives critique of Dutch skeptics	185
*Francoise Schneider-Gauquelin:
Examining rational explanations of the Mars Effect	204
Index 	224