Shermer Michael (ed.) The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience

Santa-Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2002. — 920 p.Even if your not a believer in the supernatural there's more to fight off such as astrology, acupuncture, UFO's, and other delusions you might think true but has no evidence. Great for debating those creationists and other weird beliefs people seem to have.Colorful Pebbles and Darwin’s Dictum: An Introduction.
Important Pseudoscientific Concepts.
Alien Abductions.
Alternative Archaeology.
Ancient Astronauts.
Animal Mutilations.
Anomalous Psychological Experiences.
Anthroposophy and Anthroposophical Medicine.
Astrology.
Attachment Therapy.
Ball Lightning.
Bermuda Triangle.
Biorhythms.
Castaneda, Carlos.
Clever Hans.
Cold Reading.
Crop Circles.
Cryptozoology.
Cults.
Dietary Supplements.
Dowsing.
Earthquake Prediction.
Electromagnetic Fields and Cell Phones.
Fairies, Elves, Pixies, and Gnomes.
Faster-Than-Light Travel.
Feng Shui.
Geller, Uri.
Handwriting Analysis and Graphology.
Hypnosis.
Idemotor Effect (the "Ouija Board" Effect).
Laundry Balls.
Magnetic Therapy.
The Mars Face: Extraterrestrial Archaeology.
Meditation.
Multiple Personality Disorder.
Near-Death Experiences.
Observer Effects and Observer Bias.
Out-of-Body Experiences.
Phrenology.
Piltdown Man (Hoax): Famous Fossil Forgery.
Placebo Effect.
Planetary Alignments.
Polygraph and Lie Detection.
Prayer and Healing.
Pseudoscience and Science: A Primer in Critical Thinking.
Reincarnation.
Séance.
Shamans and Shamanism.
The Shroud of Turin.
Societies for Psychical Research.
Spiritualism.
Stock Market Pseudoscience.
Subliminal Perception and Advertising.
Sun Sign Astrology.
Synchronicity.
Therapeutic Touch.
Tunguska.
Tutankhamun's Curse.
UFOs.
Undeceiving Ourselves.
Witchcraft and Magic.
Investigations from Skeptic Magazine.
Acupuncture.
Alternative Medicine v Scientific Medicine.
Atlantis.
Chiropractic.
Christian Science as Pseudoscience.
EMDR.
Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?
Facilitated Communication.
Homeopathy.
Immortality.
The Liquefying “Blood” of St Januarius.
Psychoanalysis as Pseudoscience.
Psychotherapy as Pseudoscience.
Pyramids: The Mystery of Their Origins.
Satanic Ritual Abuse.
Science and God.
Science and Its Myths.
Science and Religion.
Skepticism and Credulity: Finding the Balance between Type I and Type II Errors.
Thought Field Therapy.
Velikovsky: Cultures in Collision on the Fringes of Science.
Witchcraft and the Origins of Science.
Witches and Witchcraft.
Case Studies in Pseudoscience from Skeptic Magazine.
The Alien Archetype: The Origin of the “Grays”.
Anastasia: A Case Study in the Myth of the Miraculous Survival.
Ancient Astronauts: Zecharia Sitchin as a Case Study.
Holistic Medicine: The Case of Caroline Myss.
Police Psychics: Noreen Renier as a Case Study.
Pseudoarchaeology: Native American Myths as a Test Case.
Pseudoarchaeology: Precolumbian Discoverers of America as a Test Case.
Pseudoscience and the Paranormal.
Psi and Psi-Missing.
Recovered Memory Therapy and False Memory Syndrome: A Father’s Perspective as a Test Case.
Recovered Memory Therapy and False Memory Syndrome: A Patient’s Perspective as a Test Case.
Recovered Memory Therapy and False Memory Syndrome: A Psychiatrist’s Perspective as a Test Case.
Science and Pseudoscience-for and Against.
Evolutionary Psychology as Good Science.
Evolutionary Psychology as Pseudoscience.
Memes as Good Science.
Memes as Pseudoscience.
Race and IQ as Good Science.
Race and IQ as Pseudoscience.
Race and Sports as Good Science.
Race and Sports as Pseudoscience.
Science Is at an End.
Science Is Just Beginning.
The Science Wars: Deconstructing Science Is Good Science.
The Science Wars: Deconstructing Science Is Pseudoscience.
Historical Documents.
Creationism: “Mr Bryan’s Address to the Jury in the Scopes’ Case The Speech Which Was Never Delivered”.
David Hume’s “Of Miracles”: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding,
Mesmerism: “Report of the Commissioners Charged by the King to Examine Animal Magnetism, Printed on the King’s Order Number in Paris from the Royal Printing House”.
What Ever Happened to N-Rays?: Robert Wood’s 1904 N-Ray Letter.
Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects.
Epilogue: Let Us Reflect.About the Editors.