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Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit Hardback - 2009 - 5th Edition

by Jonathan C. Smith

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Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit provides readers with a variety of "reality-checking" tools to analyze extraordinary claims and to determine their validity.

  • Integrates simple yet powerful evaluative tools used by both paranormal believers and skeptics alike
  • Introduces innovations such as a continuum for ranking paranormal claims and evaluating their implications
  • Includes an innovative "Critical Thinker's Toolkit," a systematic approach for performing reality checks on paranormal claims related to astrology, psychics, spiritualism, parapsychology, dream telepathy, mind-over-matter, prayer, life after death, creationism, and more
  • Explores the five alternative hypotheses to consider when confronting a paranormal claim
  • Reality Check boxes, integrated into the text, invite students to engage in further discussion and examination of claims
  • Written in a lively, engaging style for students and general readers alike

Ancillaries: Testbank and PowerPoint slides available at www.wiley.com/go/pseudoscience

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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.

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  • Title Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit
  • Author Jonathan C. Smith
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 5th
  • Edition 5
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
  • Publication date 2009-09-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781405181235 / 1405181230
  • Weight 1.64 lbs (0.74 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.94 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Psychological
    • Topical: New Age
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Parapsychology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009017134
  • Dewey Decimal Code 130

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2010, Page 13

About the author

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.

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