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"item_description" : "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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Overview
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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781405181235
- ISBN-10: 1405181230
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- Publish Date: September 2009
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.94 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.64 pounds
- Page Count: 432
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