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Preface | p. vii |
It's Not News, It's Entertainment: In Which the Media Covers Voodoo Science | p. 3 |
The Belief Gene: In Which Science Offers a Strategy for Sorting Out the Truth | p. 28 |
Placebos Have Side Effects: In Which People Tum to "Natural" Medicine | p. 46 |
The Virtual Astronaut: In Which People Dream of Artificial Worlds | p. 68 |
There Ought To Be a Law: In Which Congress Seeks to Repeal the Laws of Thermodynamics | p. 92 |
Perpetuum Mobile: In Which People Dream of Infinite Free Energy | p. 111 |
Currents of Fear: In Which Power Lines Are Suspected of Causing Cancer | p. 140 |
Judgment Day: In Which the Courts Confront "Junk Science" | p. 162 |
Only Mushrooms Grow in the Dark: In Which Voodoo Science Is Protected by Official Secrecy | p. 172 |
How Strange Is the Universe? In Which Ancient Superstitions Reappear as Pseudoscience | p. 192 |
Index | p. 215 |
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