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Introduction | p. 9 |
Science and Skeptical Inquiry | |
Science and the Public: Summing Up Thirty Years of the Skeptical Inquirer | p. 19 |
In Defense of the Higher Values | p. 34 |
Ann Druyan Talks about Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe ... and Carl Sagan | p. 38 |
Carl Sagan's Last Q&A on Science and Skeptical Inquiry Supplemented with Ann Druyan's "The Great Turning Away" | p. 48 |
Can the Sciences Help Us to Make Wise Ethical Judgments? | p. 65 |
Science Wars: Science and the Bush Administration | p. 78 |
Do Extraordinary Claims Really Require Extraordinary Evidence? | p. 81 |
The Fallacy of Misplaced Rationalism | p. 84 |
Critical Inquiry and Public Controversies | |
"We Find That Intelligent Design Is Not Science": Excerpts from the Dover Federal Court Ruling on Intelligent Design Introduction by Kendrick Frazier | p. 91 |
The "Vise Strategy" Undone: Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District | p. 99 |
Four Common Myths About Evolution | p. 113 |
Only a Theory?: Framing the Evolution/Creation Issue | p. 124 |
Is Intelligent Design Creationism? | p. 130 |
The Memory Wars | p. 133 |
AIDS Denialism vs. Science | p. 139 |
Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming | p. 150 |
The Global Warming Debate: Science and Scientists in a Democracy | p. 170 |
A Skeptical Look at September 11th: How We Can Defeat Terrorism by Reacting to It More Rationally | p. 173 |
Strong Response to Terrorism Not Necessarily a Symptom of Fallacious Statistical Reasoning or Human Cognitive Limitations | p. 182 |
The Anti-Vaccination Movement | p. 185 |
Vaccine Safety: Vaccines Are One of Public Health's Great Accomplishments | p. 195 |
Warning: Animal Extremists Are Dangerous to Your Health | p. 198 |
Predator Panic: A Closer Look | p. 206 |
The Case for Decentralized Generation of Electricity | p. 213 |
Understanding Pseudoscience, Investigating Claims | |
The Philosophy behind Pseudoscience | p. 235 |
The Columbia University "Miracle" Study: Flawed and Fraud Supplemented with: Third Strike for Columbia University Prayer Study: Author Plagiarism | p. 252 |
Anomalous Cognition: A Meeting of the Minds | p. 268 |
Anomalous Cognition? A Second Perspective | p. 275 |
The PEAR Proposition: Fact or Fallacy? Supplemented with: PEAR Lab Closes, Ending Decades of Psychic Research | p. 281 |
Gary Schwartz's Energy Healing Experiments: The Emperor's New Clothes? | p. 290 |
Testing Natasha | p. 298 |
"Dr." Bearden's Vacuum Energy | p. 311 |
Lessons of the "Fake Moon Flight" Myth | p. 315 |
Magnet Therapy: A Billion-dollar Boondoggle | p. 318 |
Oxygen Is Good-Even When It's Not There | p. 323 |
Undercover among the Spirits: Investigating Camp Chesterfield | p. 329 |
How to "Haunt" a House | p. 338 |
The Devious Art of Improvising, Lessons One and Two | p. 348 |
A Patently False Patent Myth-Still! | p. 357 |
Contributors | p. 362 |
References | p. 368 |
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