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Headlines and television news reports feature accounts of reincarnation, the predictions of astrologers, and psychic'miracles.'Citizens report UFO sightings. Police departments call on psychics to provide clues in baffling crimes. From every available information source, the public is bombarded with unsubstantiated claims of paranormal phenomena. How much of the evidence is reliable? What is the truth behind these claims?Paranormal Borderlands of Science is an exciting, well-informed examination of the most publicized and exotic claims of astrology, ESP, psychokinesis, precognition, UFOs, biorhythms, and other phenomena. Written by respected psychologists, astronomers and other scientists, philosophers, investigative journalists, and magicians, the 47 articles in this superb collection present a skeptical treatment of pseudoscientific claims - an aspect often sorely neglected in sensationalized media reports.This book is an effort to help readers sort fact from fiction and sense from nonsense among the astonishing variety of assertions labeled'paranormal.'Never before published in book form, the essays in this anthology originally appeared in the Skeptical Inquirer, a leading magaz

Author

Kendrick Frazier

Publisher

Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780879751487

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Body Mind & Spirit