Debunked!
Subtitle: ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience
Contributors: Bart K. Holland (Translator)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780801878671
Subjects: Mind, Body, Spirit; Parapsychology, psychic powers, ESP; Occultism and science; New Age; Body, Mind & Spirit; New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit; Parapsychology - ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepathy); Science / General; Witchcraft & Wicca; Occultism
First sentence: Your powers are finally going to be revealed to you, and you are going to learn how to control nature.
Description: During the most scientifically advanced period in human history, belief in the paranormal and the supernatural is alarmingly common. Nobel Prize winner Georges Charpak and physics professor Henri Broch team up to show you the tricks of the trade and sleight of hand that keep astrologers, TV psychics, and spoon benders in business. Using only the simplest of science, the authors explore the effectiveness of horoscopes--the blander the better--and why, with a television audience in the millions, any strange, unlikely prediction is almost certain to come true. Not merely an exposé of magic tricks, this book demonstrates how pseudoscientists use science, statistics, and psychology to bamboozle an audience--sometimes for fun, sometimes for profit. Entertaining and enlightening, Debunked! is the antidote, vigorously asserting the virtues of doubt, skepticism, curiosity, and scientific knowledge.--Publisher information.