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Luther Maze
March 26, 2004, 06:13 PM
I just read Paul Kurtz The Transcendental Temptation and am hoping to find a book that can help me uncover a fruad in a claim of the paranormal.

I was thinking of geting A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology
by the same Paul Kurtz but would like it in much greater dedail than he gave in The Transcendental Temptation.

Basically what I have on my hands is that my cousin has got his family all in an uproar with his and his roomate's claims of his apartment being haunted. With electrical difficulty and the temprature droping in his room. along with the smell of decay. I have yet to talk to him however, never-the-less I wouldn't mind reading up on the topic.

This is effecting his computer and thus we haven't been keeping in touch.

Clutch
March 26, 2004, 07:34 PM
Originally posted by Luther Maze
I just read Paul Kurtz The Transcendental Temptation and am hoping to find a book that can help me uncover a fruad in a claim of the paranormal.

I was thinking of geting A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology
by the same Paul Kurtz but would like it in much greater dedail than he gave in The Transcendental Temptation.

Basically what I have on my hands is that my cousin has got his family all in an uproar with his and his roomate's claims of his apartment being haunted. With electrical difficulty and the temprature droping in his room. along with the smell of decay. I have yet to talk to him however, never-the-less I wouldn't mind reading up on the topic.

This is effecting his computer and thus we haven't been keeping in touch. It's 20 years old, but you just can't beat James Randi's Flim Flam! for details about deliberate paranormal deceptions.

For an excellent and readable discussion of reasoning errors associated with the non-deliberate (or only quasi-deliberate) belief in such things, let me offer my 4,000th recommendation of Thomas Gilovich's How We Know What Isn't So. It is much more informative, and explanatory, than any other "debunking" book I've seen.

Luther Maze
March 27, 2004, 10:59 AM
Thanks Clutch
I think I'll read How We Know What Isn't So. Maybe I'll come back to the other later.

AtheistSalmon
March 28, 2004, 06:13 PM
In Carl Sagan's "Demon Haunted World" there are many pages that talk about parapsycologists from a skeptic's view.