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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan C. Smith! Ph.D.! is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist! Professor of Psychology at Roosevelt University! Founding Director of the Roosevelt University Stress Institute! and Head of the Pseudoscience and Paranormal Laboratory. Dr. Smith has published 17 books and has written numerous articles on stress! relaxation! meditation! and mindfulness! as well as spirituality and skepticism. In 1984 he founded the Roosevelt University Stress Institute primarily to combat pseudoscience in the field. He has created classroom and online classes specifically designed to teach critical thinking skills and evaluate extraordinary claims of the paranormal. Klappentext Are ghosts real? Can the living communicate with the dead? Does prayer work? Are astrology and psychic readings accurate? In this groundbreaking book, a leading expert in the field makes sense of these mysteries and many more. Geared for paranormal believers and skeptics alike, Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit provides readers with a highly original, engaging, and clear-headed approach for analyzing paranormal claims and distinguishing science from pseudoscience.Committed above all to embracing fact over fiction, Smith encourages readers to question "fearlessly and honestly." The result may just be a greater appreciation of the awe and wonder that true science brings to our world. Zusammenfassung Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal provides readers with the tools to make sense of the strange and unexplained. Geared for paranormal believers and skeptics alike, the text utilizes a systematic approach for making measured and thoughtful analyses of paranormal claims. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART 1: INTRODUCTION.Chapter 1: The Continuum Mysteriosum.Chapter 2: Why Study These Things?.PART II: THE CRITICAL THINKER'S TOOLKIT.Chapter 3: Reality Check: Are the Sources Credible?.Chapter 4: Reality Check: Is the Logic Valid and Sound?.Chapter 5: Reality Check: Are Claims Based on Science: (Observations,Tests, and Theories)?.Chapter 6: Reality Checking for Oddities of Nature and the World ofNumbers.Chapter 7: Reality Checking for Perceptual Error and Trickery.Chapter 8: Reality Checking for Memory Errors.Chapter 9: Reality Checking for the Placebo Effect.Chapter 10: Reality Checking for Sensory Anomalies and Hallucinations.PART 3: THE PARANORMAL FILES.Chapter 11: Spiritualism and the Survival Hypothesis .Chapter 12: Parapsychology.Chapter 13: Energy Treatments and Complementary and Alternative Medicine(CAM).Chapter 14: Supernatural Cures and Faith Healing.Chapter 15: Creationism, Intelligent Design, and God.Chapter 16: The Reality Checkup: Using your Toolkit....
