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Encounters with the Paranormal
Science, Knowledge, and Belief
By Kendrick Frazier (Editor)
Our Price: $22.95
Our Item Code: EncounterPara
Postage Code: book1.5
450 Pages, Trade Paperback
Cover Size: 6 x 9 inches
Prometheus Books
Related listings: Paranormal Skepticism
Date: April 1998
ISBN: 1-57392-203-x
Added to Catalog: 7/8/98
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Features: Table of Contents, Index, Footnotes, Drawings, Diagrams
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Publisher's Synopsis
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.
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