Table of Contents
The fine art of baloney detection / Carl Sagan -- Why smart people believe weird things / Michael Shermer -- Cold reading : how to convince strangers that you know all about them / Ray Hyman -- Sylvia Browne : psychic guru or quack? / Bryan Farha -- Deconstructing the dead / Michael Shermer -- Near-death experiences : in or out of body? / Susan Blackmore -- Number manipulation : the not "so spooky" Tim McVeigh / Bryan Farha -- Why bogus therapies often seem to work / Barry L. Beyerstein -- A close look at therapeutic touch / Linda Rosa ... [et al.] -- Chiropractic's dirty secret : neck manipulation and strokes / Stephen Barrett -- Magnet therapy : a skeptical view / Stephen Barrett -- The great dilution delusion / James Randi -- The case for and against astrology / Geoffrey Dean -- Looking up to logic / Bryan Farha -- Prayer and healing : the verdict is in and the results are null / Michael Shermer -- Benny Hinn : healer or hypnotist? / Joe Nickell -- John of God : ABC's Primetime Live special about a Brazilian "healer" falls far short of investigative journalism / James Randi -- Bigfoot at 50 : evaluating a half-century of Bigfoot evidence / Benjamin Radford.