Debunked! : ESP, telekinesis, and other pseudoscience / Georges Charpak and Henri Broch ; translated by Bart K. Holland.

Debunked! : ESP, telekinesis, and other pseudoscience / Georges Charpak and Henri Broch ; translated by Bart K. Holland.

Devenez sorciers, devenez savants. English

9780801878671 (alk. paper)
0801878675 (alk. paper)

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2004]

©2004

English

xxi, 136 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

BF1409.5 .C4313 2004

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During the most scientifically advanced period in human history, belief in the paranormal and the supernatural is alarmingly common. Nobel Prize winner Georges Charpak and physics professor Henri Broch team up to show you the tricks of the trade and sleight of hand that keep astrologers, TV psychics, and spoon benders in business. Using only the simplest of science, the authors explore the effectiveness of horoscopes--the blander the better--and why, with a television audience in the millions, any strange, unlikely prediction is almost certain to come true. Not merely an exposé of magic tricks, this book demonstrates how pseudoscientists use science, statistics, and psychology to bamboozle an audience--sometimes for fun, sometimes for profit. Entertaining and enlightening, Debunked! is the antidote, vigorously asserting the virtues of doubt, skepticism, curiosity, and scientific knowledge.--From publisher description.

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