Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions - James Randi [178]
The Pentagon, for spending $6 million on a project to determine if burning a photo of a Soviet missile would destroy it.
TV station KNBC, Los Angeles, for accepting the Tamara Randhoax as the real goods without troubling to check it.
Tamara Rand, who claimed she had predicted an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan months before the event; she actually did it 24 hours after.
Selected Bibliography
I have compiled this bibliography with a view to acquainting the reader with what I consider to be some of the more blatant examples of promotion of the paranormal, and also with skeptical analyses of alleged supernatural phenomena.
Periodicals
Pro-paranormal
Fate. Curtis Fuller, ed. 500 Hyacinth Place, Highland Park, Illinois 60035. $10/year.
Anti-paranormal
The Skeptical Inquirer. Journal of The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, 923 Kensington Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14215. $15/year.
Books
Pro-paranormal
Cayce, E. V., and H. L. Cayce. The Outer Limits of Edgar Cayce's Power. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Coming of the Fairies. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921, Reprint New York Weisner 1975
The World of Ted Serios. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1967.
Fuller, John G. Arigo: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1974. London: Hart Davis, MacGibbon, 1975. Gardner, Edward L. Fairies. London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1945.
Geller, Uri. My Story. New York: Praeger, 1975.
Krippner, Stanley, and A. Villoldo. The Realms of Healing. Millbrae, Calif.: Celestial Arts, 1976.
Panati, C., ed. The Geller Papers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.
Puharich, A. Uri. New York: Doubleday, Anchor Press, 1974.
Taylor, John. Superminds. New York: Warner Books, 1975.
Thommen, George. Is This Your Day? New York: Crown Publishers, 1964.
Vandenberg, Philipp. The Curse of the Pharaohs. New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1975.
Wilson, Colin. The Geller Phenomenon. London: Aldus Books, 1976.
Anti-paranormal
Angela, Piero. Viaggio el Mondo del Paranormale. Rome: Aldo Garzanti Editore, 1978.
Barrett, Stephen, and Gilda Knight, eds. The Health Robbers. Philadelphia: G. F. StickleyCo., 1976.
Bok, Bart, and L. Jerome. Objections to Astrology. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1975.
Christopher, Milbourne. ESP, Seers & Psychics. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1970.
-Mediums, Mystics & the Occult. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975.
Cohen, Daniel. The New Believers. New York: M. Evans & Co., 1975.
Condon, E.,etal. Scientific Study of UFO's. New York: Bantam Books, 1969.
Crosby, Jan. Sannheten om Uri Geller. Osol: Bjornsen & Schram, 1974.
Dingwall, E. J., and Harry Price. Revelations of a Spirit Medium. London: Kegan Paul, 1925.
Evans, Bergen. The Natural History of Nonsense. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
-The Spoor of Spooks and Other Nonsense. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.
Evans, Dr. Christopher. Cults of Unreason. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1973.
Fair, Charles. The New Nonsense. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.
Gardner, Martin. Fads & Fallacies in the Name of Science. New York: Dover Publications, 1957.
-Science: Good, Bad and Bogus. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1981.
Goldsmith, D., ed. Scientists Confront Velikovsky. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1977.
Hansel, C. E. M. ESP: A Scientific Evaluation. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966. 2d ed., rev. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1980.
Houdini, Harry. A Magician Among the Spirits. 1924. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1972.
Jerome, L. Astrology Disproved. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1977.
Kammann, R., and D. Marks. The Psychology of the Psychic. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1980.
Keene, M. Lamar. The Psychic Mafia. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976.
Klass, Philip. UFO's Explained. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, 1974.
Kovoor, Dr. Abraham. Begone Godmen! Bombay: