The Hundredth monkey and other paradigms of the paranormal : a Skeptical inquirer collection

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Collection of essays and articles from the Skeptical Inquirer addressing the important issues of science and popular belief. The burden of skepticism / Carl Sagan -- The perennial fringe / Isaac Asimov -- Reflections on the "transcendental temptation" / Paul Kurtz -- The used of credulity / L. Sprague de Camp -- The appeal of the occult / Phillips Stevens, Jr. -- A field guide to critical thinking / James W. Lett -- Assessing arguments and evidence / Ray Hyman -- The brain and consciousness: implications for psi phenomena / Barry Beyerstein -- The aliens among us: hypnotic regression revisited / Robert A. Baker -- The varieties of alien experience / Bill Ellis -- Past-life hypnotic regression: a critical view / Nicholas P. Spanos -- Past-tongues remembered? / Sarah G. Thomason -- The myth of alpha consciousness / Barry Beyerstein -- Pathologies of science, precognition, and modern psychophysics / Donald D. Jensen -- The elusive open mind: ten years of negative research in parapsychology / Susan J. Blackmore -- Parapsychology, miracles, and repeatability / Antony Flew -- Ganzfeld studies / Kendrick Frazier -- Improving human performance: what about parapsychology? / Kendrick Frazier -- Psi researchers' inattention to conjuring / Martin Gardner -- The obligation to disclose fraud / Martin Gardner -- The hundredth monkey phenomena / Ron Amundson -- An investigation of firewalking / Bernard J. Leikind, William J. McCarthy -- Incredible cremations: investigating spontaneous combustion deaths / Joe Nickell, John F. Fischer -- Write and wrong: the validity of graphological analysis / Adrian Furnham -- Graphology and personality: "let the buyer beware" / Robert Basil -- A study of the Kirlian effect / Arleen J. Watkins, Wililam S. Bickel -- The moon was full and nothing happened / Ivan W. Kelly, James Rotton, Roger Culver -- Testing psi claims in China / Paul Kurtz ... [et a.l] -- The psychopathology of fringe medicine / Karl Sabbagh -- Folk remedies and human belief-systems / Frank Reuter -- Chiropractic: a skeptical view / William Jarvis -- Homeopathy: is it medicine? / Stephen Barrett -- Does astrology need to be true? Part 1: A look at the real thing Part 2: The answer is no / Geoffrey Dean -- Double-blind test of astrology avoids bias, still refutes the astrological hypothesis -- Crash of the crashed-saucer claim / Paul J. Klass -- The MJ-12 crashed-saucer documents / Philip J. Klass -- New evidence of MJ-12 hoax / Philip J. Klass -- Cold fusion: a case study in "wishful science" / Milton A. Rothman -- Water with memory? The dilution affair / Martin Gardner -- Science, mysteries, and the quest of evidence / Martin Gardner -- Relativism in science / Martin Gardner.