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Preface | p. xi |
Science | |
Multiverses and Blackberries | p. 3 |
A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper | p. 12 |
Rudolf Carnap, Philosopher of Science | p. 19 |
Some Thoughts About Induction | p. 23 |
Can Time Go Backward? | p. 29 |
Mathematics | |
Against the Odds (a story) | p. 49 |
Fun with Mobius Bands | p. 57 |
Is Mathematics "Out There"? | p. 61 |
Ian Stewart's Flatterland | p. 64 |
Kurt Godel's Amazing Discovery | p. 67 |
New Results on Magic Hexagrams | p. 74 |
Religion | |
The Strange Case of Garry Wills | p. 85 |
Mad Messiahs | p. 94 |
Oahspe | p. 101 |
The Vagueness of Krishnamurti | p. 112 |
Literature | |
Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday | p. 125 |
Ernest Hemingway and Jane | p. 135 |
Three Parodies of Famous Poems | p. 144 |
Edgar Wallace and The Green Archer | p. 147 |
Afterword to The Green Archer | p. 159 |
The Tin Woodman of Oz | p. 164 |
Moonshine | |
Little Red Riding Hood | p. 177 |
The Brutality of Dr. Bettelheim | p. 188 |
Facilitated Communication: A Cruel Farce | p. 195 |
Distant Healing and Elisabeth Targ | p. 203 |
The Therapeutic Touch | p. 211 |
Primal Scream Therapy | p. 215 |
Eyeless Vision | p. 225 |
Magic and Psi | p. 244 |
How Mrs. Piper Bamboozled William James | p. 252 |
"Dr." Henry Slade, American Medium | p. 263 |
Index | p. 273 |
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