Title: The new age : notes of a fringe watcher /
Authors: Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010; Schuster, Rand,
Publisher: Prometheus Books,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Science Miscellanea; Parapsychology.; Occultism; New Age movement Controversial literature.; Impostors and imposture Miscellanea.; New Age movement; Parapsychology; Occultism; Fraud
Abstract: Critical articles on Margaret Mead, Shirley MacLaine, Immanuel Velikovsky, Uri Geller, superstrings, psychic surgery, the Antichrist, psychokinesis, channeling, Christian television evangelists, L. Ron Hubbard, psychic astronomy, and similar topics.
Contents: Project alpha -- Margaret Mead -- Magicians in the psi lab -- Shirley MacLaine -- Freud, Fliess, and Emma's nose -- Koestler money down the psi drain -- Targ: From Puthoff to Blue -- The relevance of belief systems -- Welcome to the debunking club -- The great stone face -- From Phillips to Morris -- George McCready Price -- Wonders of science -- Tommy Gold -- Rupert Sheldrake -- The anomalies of Chip Arp -- Thoughts on superstrings -- The third eye -- Irving Kristol and the facts of life -- The great SRI die mystery -- Perpetual motion -- Psychic surgery -- 666 and all that -- D.D. home-sweet-home -- PK (Psycho-krap) -- Chicanery in science -- Folls' paradigms -- Look, Shirl, no hands -- The channeling mania -- Who was Ray Palmer -- Prime-time preachers -- L. Ron Hubbard -- Psychic astronomy.