Index

A

Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, (1), (2)

academics/academy, (1)

and UFOs and alien abduction, (1), (2)

Act (1)

acupressure and acupuncture, (1)

ad hoc rationalization, (1)

ad hominem fallacy, (1)

applied to Holocaust deniers, (1), (2)

ad ignorantiam fallacy, (1)

aerial reconnaissance photographs of Auschwitz, (1)

Afrocentrism, (1)

afterlife, (1)

after-the-fact reasoning, (1)

age, and belief, (1), (2), (3)

agreeableness, (1)

Albert Speer: The End of a Myth, (1)

Alcock, James, (1), (2)

alien abductions, (1), (2), (3), (4)

alien autopsy film, (1)

alien experiences, validation of, (1), (2)

Aliens in America, (1)

Allen, Steve, (1)

Allen, Woody, (1), (2)

allopatric speciation, (1), (2)

Altea, Rosemary, (1)

altered states of consciousness, (1)

Ambulocetus natans, (1)

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), (1), (2), (3), (4)

American Mathematical Society, (1)

American Mercury, (1)

“analogies problem,” (1)

anecdotes, as unscientific, (1)

Anfinsen, Christian, (1)

antecedent skepticism, (1)

Anthropic Cosmological Principle, (1), (2)

Anthropic Principle, (1)

Final Anthropic Principle, (1), (2)

Participatory Anthropic Principle, (1)

Strong Anthropic Principle, (1)

Weak Anthropic Principle, (1), (2)

Anti-Defamation League (ADL), (1), (2)

Aquinas, Thomas, (1), (2), (3)

App, Austin, (1)

Archeopteryx, (1)

Arendt, Hannah, (1)

Aretz, Emil, (1)

Aristotle, (1)

Arkansas creationism trial

see McLean v. Arkansas

Arnold, Matthew, (1)

Assault on Truth, The, (1)

Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.), (1)

astrology, (1), (2), (3)

Atlas Shrugged, (1)

Auschwitz, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

as anus mundi, (1)

David Cole trip to, (1)

reconstructed gas chamber at, (1)

Auschwitz Lie, The (die Auschwitz-Lüge), (1)

ausrotten, Ausrottung (extermination) of Jews, (1), (2)

Australian Aborigines, (1), (2)

authoritarianism

IQ and, (1)

Ayala, Francisco, (1)

B

Bacon, Francis, (1)

Bad Science, (1)

Baker, Robert, (1), (2)

Ball, John, (1), (2)

“banality of evil,” (1)

Barnes, Thomas, (1)

Barrow, John, (1), (2), (3)

Barston, Ann, (1)

baseball players, (1)

Bass, Ellen, (1)

Bauer, Yehuda, (1), (2)

Behavior Genetics Association, (1)

Behe, Michael, (1)

belief

age and, (1), (2)

education and, (1)

gender and, (1), (2), (3)

influence and, (1)

intelligence and, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

locus of control and, (1)

personality and, (1)

psychology of, (1)

beliefs

defending, (1)

formation of, (1)

science and, (1)

skills for defending, (1)

ways of coming to, (1)

Believing in Magic, (1)

Bell, Art, (1)

Bell Curve, The, (1), (2)

bell curve, and probabilities of ESP, (1)

ben-Jochannan, Yosef A. A., (1)

Bennett, Gillian, (1), (2)

Bennetta, William, (1)

Berg, Friedrich, (1)

Berg, Judith, (1)

dialogue with Bradley Smith on

Donahue, (1)

Berkeley, George, (1)

Bermuda Triangle, (1)

Best, Joel, (1)

Beyerstein, Barry, (1)

biases, (1)

in defending weird beliefs, (1)

Bible

creation/re-creation story, (1)

and creationists, (1)

facts of nature and acts of, (1)

Bible Science Association, (1)

Big Bang, (1), (2)

Biological Science Curriculum Study, (1)

Bird, Wendell, (1)

birth order, (1)

“BITE model,” (1)

Blackmore, Susan, (1)

Blackmun, Justice Harry, (1)

Blind Watchmaker, The, (1)

Blum, L. H., (1)

Blum, S. H., (1)

Born to Rebel, (1)

Bowers, Kenneth, (1)

Boynton, Robert, (1)

brain, (1)

domain general/domain specific, (1)

Brand, Chris, (1)

Branden, Barbara, (1)

Branden, Nathaniel, (1)

Brandt, Rudolf, (1)

Brattstrom, Bayard, (1), (2)

Braudel, Fernand, (1)

Breitbart, Aaron, (1)

Brennan, Justice William, (1)

Brief History of Time, A, (1)

Briggs, Robin, (1)

Brin, David, (1)

Broad, Pery, (1), (2)

Bromley, David, (1)

Brown, Courtney, (1)

Browne, Sylvia, (1)

Browning, Christopher, (1)

Brugioni, Dino A., (1)

Bryan, William Jennings, (1)

Bryant, Nevin, (1)

Buckley, William F., (1), (2)

burden of proof, (1)

Butler Act, (1)

Butz, Arthur, (1)

C

C-syndrome, and alien autopsy film, (1)

Calaveras Man, (1)

California Institute of Technology (Caltech), (1), (2), (3)

California Science Teacher’s Journal, (1)

Cambridge University Press, (1)

Campbell, Joseph, (1), (2)

Candelabra theory of human origins, (1)

Candide, (1), (2)

Capra, Fritjof, (1), (2), (3)

Carporael, Linnda, (1)

Carter, Brandon, (1)

Carto, Willis, (1), (2), (3)

Cattell, Raymond, (1)

Cavalli-Sforza, Luca, (1), (2)

Cayce, Edgar, (1)

Centre for Historical Review, (1)

Cerf, Bennett, (1)

Chomsky, Noam, (1)

Christian Heritage College, (1), (2)

Christophersen, Thies, (1)

CIA, (1)

Cialdini, Robert, (1)

circular reasoning, (1)

Clarke, Arthur C., (1)

Climbing Mount Improbable, (1)

cloning, (1)

cognitive biases, (1), (2)

Cohen, I. B., (1)

coincidence, (1), (2), (3)

cold fusion, (1), (2), (3), (4)

cold-reading, (1), (2)

Cole, David, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

dialogue with Phil Donahue, (1)

opinion on Mark Weber, (1)

Collins, S., (1)

Columbia University, (1)

Communion, (1)

confabulation, (1)

“Confessions” of Kurt Gerstein, The, (1)

confirmation bias, (1), (2), (3)

conflicting-worlds model of science and religion, (1)

conscientiousness, (1)

consequent skepticism, (1)

“consilience of inductions,” (1)

conspiratorial thinking, (1)

characteristics of, (1)

and Holocaust denial, (1)

construct, defined, (1)

contingency, (1)

and belief in psychic power, (1)

and coincidence, (1)

and history, (1)

Holocaust as a function of, (1)

v. intelligent design, (1)

convergence of evidence argument, (1)

in comparing aerial photographs of Auschwitz, (1)

in comparing Pery Broad’s and Johann Paul Kremer’s testimonies, (1)

in proving gas chambers and crematoria, (1)

Cooper, Leon N., (1)

Copernican Principle, (1)

Copernican revolution, (1)

Cornell University, (1)

Cornell University Press, (1)

Cosmic Explorers, (1)

Cosmic Voyage, (1)

Cosmides, Leda, (1)

counter evidence, (1)

Courage to Heal, The, (1)

Creation Explanation, The: A Scientific Alternative to Evolution, (1)

Creation Research Society, (1), (2)

creationism, (1), (2), (3)

as attack on all science, (1)

and censoring textbooks, (1)

compared with Holocaust denial, (1), (2)

and creation and re-creation myths, (1)

as denial of evolution, (1)

and design argument, (1)

as disguised religion, (1)

and equal-time argument, (1), (2)

and fundamentalists, (1)

gender and, (1)

and goal to reach children, (1)

list of correct scientific predictions

and population argument, (1)

discussed by Supreme Court justices, (1)

top-down strategy of believers in, (1)

young-Earth v. old-Earth, (1)

creationists, (1)

new, (1)

creation-science, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9)

see also creationism

Creation-Science Research Center, (1), (2)

creativity, and intelligence, (1)

credo consolans, (1), (2)

crematoria, (1), (2), (3)

proving use of, in Holocaust, (1)

critical thinking movement, (1)

cryonics, (1)

crystallized intelligence, (1)

cults, (1)

characteristics of, (1)

culture

abduction narratives in, (1)

as cumulative and progressive, (1)

D

Dachau, (1)

Dames, Ed, (1)

Dancing Wu Li Masters, The, (1)

Darley, John, (1)

Darrow, Clarence, (1)

Darwin, Charles, (1), (2), (3), (4)

beliefs about God, (1), (2), (3)

and races, (1)

and skepticism, (1)

see also Darwinism

Darwin, Mike, (1)

Darwin on Trial, (1), (2)

Darwinism, (1)

as cause of social problems, (1)

and limitations of the fossil record, (1)

Darwin’s Black Box, (1)

Davies, Paul, (1)

Davis, Laura, (1)

Dawkins, Richard (1), (2), (3)

Day the Earth Stood Still, The, (1)

De Solla Price, Derek J., (1)

Dean, Jodi, (1)

Dean, Judge Braswell, (1)

Debunking the Genocide Myth: A Study of the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Alleged Extermination of European Jewry, (1), (2)

deduction, defined, (1)

Dembski, William, (1), (2), (3)

Demjanjuk, John, (1)

Demos, John, (1)

Dennett, Daniel, (1)

depression, (1)

Descartes, René, (1), (2)

descent with modification, (1)

design argument, (1), (2), (3)

Design Inference, The, (1)

“design problem,” (1)

Destruction of Dresden, The, (1)

Dethier, Vincent, (1), (2)

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, (1)

Did Six Million Really Die?, (1)

differential reproductive success, (1)

Digging Dinosaurs, (1)

Dirac’s Large Numbers Hypothesis, (1)

Discovery Institute

Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture, (1)

dispositional attribution, (1)

dogmatism, (1)

Donahue, Phil, and show on Holocaust deniers, (1)

Doors of Perception, (1)

Doyle, Arthur Conan, (1)

Draper, Wycliffe Preston, (1)

Drees, Clay, (1)

Drexler, Eric, (1)

Duplantier, Judge Adrian, (1)

Dyson, Freeman, (1)

E

Eagle and the Rose, The: A Remarkable True Story, (1)

East Wenatchee, sex-abuse witch craze, (1)

Eddington, Arthur Stanley, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Edison, Jean Farrel, (1)

education

and belief, (1), (2), (3)

Edward, John, (1)

Edwards, Harry, (1)

Edwards v. Aguillard, (1), (2)

amicus curiae brief, (1), (2)

Ehrenreich, Barbara, (1)

Eichmann, Adolf, (1), (2), (3)

Einsatzgruppen, (1), (2)

Einstein, Albert, (1), (2), (3), (4)

theory of relativity ignored, (1)

and time travel, (1)

either-or fallacy, (1)

and creationists, (1), (2)

Eldridge, Niles, (1), (2), (3)

Emory University, (1), (2), (3), (4)

emotional reasons for belief, (1), (2)

Empedocles on Etna, (1)

English, Deirdre, (1)

Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, An, (1), (2)

environment, and superstitious belief, (1)

Epic of Gilgamesh, (1)

Epperson, Susan, (1)

Epstein, Seymour, (1)

equal-time argument, (1), (2)

Erikson, Kai, (1)

Essay on Man, An, (1), (2)

Establishment Clause, (1), (2)

ET, (1)

eugenics, (1)

European Witch-Craze, The, (1)

evidence

anecdotal and uncorroborated, (1), (2), (3)

favorable/unfavorable, (1), (2)

lack of, (1), (2)

evolution, theory of

belief in and understanding of, (1)

burden of proof concerning, (1)

as cause of social problems, (1), (2)

creationists’ war against, (1)

debate on, (1)

defined, (1)

and ethics and religion, (1)

God proved by, (1)

Pope John Paul II’s belief in, (1)

proved through convergence of evidence, (1)

evolution denial

see creationism; creation-science

evolution tree of social problems, (1)

“exterminationists,” (1)

external locus of control, (1)

extrasensory perception (ESP), (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

and locus of control, (1)

extra-terrestrial intelligence, (1), (2)

extroversion, (1)

Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers, (1)

F

Fabius-Gayssot law, (1)

“face” on Mars, (1)

facilitated communication, (1)

fact, defined, (1), (2)

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, (1)

fairies, (1)

faith and belief

as more important than science, (1)

as not threatened by science, (1)

see also belief

“faith in science problem,” (1)

Faith of a Physicist, The, (1)

faith-based beliefs, (1)

Fajnzylberg, Alter, (1)

fallacy of negation, (1)

fallacy of redundancy, (1)

false dilemma, (1)

false memory syndrome, (1)

see also recovered memory movement

False Memory Syndrome Foundation, (1)

false positives/false negatives, as fallacies of thinking, (1)

fantasy role playing, (1)

Farsight Institute, The, (1)

Father-Daughter Incest, (1)

Faurisson, Robert, (1), (2), (3)

and David Cole, (1)

and demand for “just one proof” of Holocaust, (1)

as “Pope of Revisionism,” (1)

feedback loop

Holocaust modeled as, (1)

witch crazes modeled as, (1)

Fell, Barry, (1)

Feynman, Richard, (1), (2), (3)

fideism, (1)

Final Solution, (1)

Albert Speer’s involvement in, (1)

and the meaning of ausrotten, (1)

as emigration, (1)

functionalism v. intentionalism of, (1)

firewalking, (1), (2)

Firmage, Joe, (1)

firstborns, and receptivity to innovation, (1)

Fitch, Val, (1)

Five Factor model (“Big Five”), (1)

Fleischmann, Martin, (1)

Fountainhead, The, (1)

Frank, Hans, (1), (2)

and ausrotten of the Jews, (1)

Franklin, George, (1)

Franklin-Lipsker, Eileen, (1)

free speech, and Holocaust denial, (1)

Freud, Sigmund, (1)

fringe groups

characteristics of, (1)

Holocaust deniers as form of, (1)

fundamentalists, (1), (2)

G

Galanter, Marc, (1)

Gallup poll

on belief in paranormal, (1), (2)

on near-death experiences, (1)

on paranormal beliefs, (1)

on religious beliefs of Americans, (1), (2)

Gardner, Martin, (1), (2), (3)

on belief in God, (1), (2)

and fallacy of Great Pyramid coincidences, (1)

and fallacy of Omega Point Theory, (1)

gas chambers, (1), (2)

denied in Marco Polo article about Auschwitz, (1)

proving use in Holocaust, (1), (2)

Gell-Mann, Murray, (1), (2), (3), (4)

gender

and belief, (1), (2), (3), (4)

and belief in paranormal phenomena, (1)

General Social Survey, (1)

Genesis Flood, The: The Biblical Record

and Its Scientific Implications, (1)

genius, (1)

George, John, (1)

German Atomic Bomb, The, (1)

German-American Anti-Defamation

League of Washington, D.C., (1)

Geschichte der Verfemung Deutschlands

(In Defense of the German Race), (1)

ghosts, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Gish, Duane T., (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

global general relativity, (1), (2), (3)

Glueck, Edith, (1)

God

belief in, (1), (2), (3)

circular proof of, (1)

existence of, (1), (2)

intelligent designer, (1)

and problem of evil, (1)

and science, (1), (2), (3)

Tipler on, (1)

Gödel, Kurt, (1)

Goebbels, Joseph, (1), (2), (3)

Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich, (1)

Goldfarb, Abraham, (1)

Goldhagen, Daniel, (1)

Good Old Days, The: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders, (1)

Göring, Hermann, (1), (2), (3)

Göring, (1), (2), (3)

Gould, Stephen Jay, (1), (2), (3)

on debating creationists, (1)

and Louisiana creationism trial, (1), (2), (3)

and punctuated equilibrium, (1), (2), (3)

and relationship of science and religion, (1), (2)

Grabiner, Judith, (1)

gradualism, (1)

Graf, Jürgen, (1)

and punctuated equilibrium, (1)

Granata, Russ, (1)

great chain of being, (1)

Great Pyramid, (1), (2)

Great Pyramid, The, (1)

Greeley, Andrew, (1)

Greenspan, Alan, (1)

Gribbin, John, (1)

Griggs, R. A., (1)

Grof, Stanislav, (1)

Gross, Paul, (1)

groups, joining, (1)

Guillaume, Pierre, (1)

Gunther, Hans, (1)

Gutman, Yisrael, (1), (2), (3)

H

Hagelin, John, (1)

Halevi, Judge Benjamin, (1)

Halevi, Meir, (1)

hallucinations, (1)

hypnogogic, (1)

hypnopompic, (1), (2)

hallucinogenic drugs, and near-death experiences, (1)

Hamanne, Vynnette, (1)

Handy Dandy Evolution Refuter, (1)

Hardison, Richard, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Harrington, Alan, (1)

Harris, Marvin, (1)

Harvard University, (1), (2)

Harwood, Richard, (1)

Hasson, Steve, (1)

hasty generalization, (1)

Hawking, Stephen, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Headland, Ronald, (1)

Heisenberg, Werner, (1)

and Uncertainty Principle, (1)

Helms, D.B., (1)

Heredity and Humanity: Race, Eugenics and Modem Science, (1)

Herman, Judith, (1)

Herrnstein, Richard, (1)

Hesperopithecus, (1)

Hexeneinmaleins einer Luge (The Six Million Lie), (1)

Heydrich, Reinhard, (1), (2)

“hidden observer” in hypnosis, (1)

Hilberg, Raul, (1), (2)

Hilgard, Ernest, (1)

Hill, Betty and Barney, (1)

Hilton, I., (1)

Himmler, Heinrich, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

historical transcendence, (1)

history

defined, (1)

revision of, (1)

as science, (1), (2)

self-correcting mechanism of, (1)

and Tipler’s theory, (1)

History and Geography of Human Genes, The, (1)

“history and lost past problem,” (1)

Hitler, Adolf, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

role in Holocaust, (1), (2)

Hitler’s War, (1), (2), (3)

Hitler’s Willing Executioners, (1)

Hoax of the Twentieth Century, The, (1)

Hobbes, Thomas, (1)

Hoekstra, Steven, (1)

Hoess, Rudolf, (1)

testimony compared with Pery Broad’s, (1)

Holocaust

defined, (1)

no immutable canon of truth about, (1)

intentionality of, (1), (2)

intentionality v. functionalism of, (1)

numbers killed in, (1), (2)

proved through convergence of evidence, (1)

and reparations, (1)

Holocaust, (1)

“Holocaust Controversy, The: The Case for Open Debate,” (1)

Holocaust denial, (1), (2), (3)

arguments of, (1), (2)

conspiratorial side of, (1), (2)

compared with creationism, (1), (2)

and definition of Holocaust, (1)

and Donahue, (1)

Jewish agenda of, (1)

Marco Polo article, (1)

methodology of, (1)

and Montel Williams television show, (1)

and numbers of Jews killed, (1), (2)

and Pioneer Fund, (1)

probability of being correct

rationalization of evidence, (1)

responding to, (1), (2)

“Holocaust” News, The, (1)

Holocaust revisionism, (1), (2)

Holocaust Revisited, The: A

Retrospective Analysis of the A uschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Complex, (1)

holotropic breathing techniques, (1)

Homo erectus, (1)

Hook, Sidney, (1)

hope springs eternal, (1), (2), (3), (4)

“hope springs eternal problem,” (1)

Hopkins, Budd, (1)

Horner, Jack, (1)

How We Believe, (1), (2)

Hubbard, L. Ron, (1)

human soap myth, (1), (2)

humanism, (1), (2)

Hume, David, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Humenansky, Diane Bay, (1)

Hundredth Monkey, The, (1)

Hundredth Monkey phenomenon, (1)

Huxley, Aldous, (1)

hydrodynamic sorting, (1)

hyper-adaptationism, (1), (2)

hypnosis, (1), (2)

hypnotic regression, (1)

hypochondriacs, (1)

hypothesis(ses), (1), (2); defined, (1)

hypothetico-deductive method, (1), (2)

I

ideological immune system, (1)

“if-then argument problem,” (1)

immortality, (1)

quest for, (1)

Tipler’s “proof” of, (1)

Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, (1)

In Defense of the German Race (Geschichte der Verfemung Deutschlands,) (1)

“incipient structure problem,” (1)

income

and belief, (1), (2)

Independence Day, (1)

Indiana University Press, (1)

induction, defined, (1)

influence

and belief, (1)

Ingersoll, Robert, (1)

Instauration, (1)

Institute for Creation Research (ICR), (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Institute for Historical Review (IHR), (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)

intellectual attribution bias, (1), (2)

intelligence

alien, (1), (2)

and belief, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

domain specific, (1)

extraterrestrial, (1), (2)

of smart people, (1), (2)

intelligent design, (1), (2), (3)

v. contingency, (1)

Intelligent Design movement, (1)

internal locus of control, (1)

International Space Sciences Organization (ISSO), (1), (2)

Iowa Academy of Science, (1)

IQ, (1)

and authoritarianism, (1)

Irving, David, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

and meaning of ausrotten of Jews, (1), (2)

offers $1,000 reward for Hitler order, (1)

response to Himmler’s Poznan speech, (1)

Is the Diary of Anne Frank Genuine?, (1)

Isabella, Marche, (1)

J

Jacobs, David, (1), (2)

James, Fob, (1)

Jensen, Judge Lowell, (1)

Jesus, (1), (2)

Jewish Defense League, (1), (2)

John Paul II, Pope, (1)

John the Divine, St., (1)

Johnson, Philip, (1), (2)

Jordon, David Starr, (1)

Journal of Historical Review, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8)

Judgment Day, (1)

K

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, (1)

Kaufman, Beth Shapiro, (1), (2), (3)

Kevles, Dan, (1)

Keyes, Ken, (1)

Kidwell, J. S., (1)

Kinsey, Alfred, (1)

Klaits, Joseph, (1)

Knight, J. E., (1)

Koch, Joachim, (1)

Kodak, and alien autopsy film, (1)

Kofahl, Robert, (1)

Kremer, Johann Paul, (1)

Kreskin, (1)

Kretschmer, Karl, (1)

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, (1)

Kuhn, Deanna, (1)

Kuhn, Thomas, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Kunda, Ziva, (1)

Kurtz, Paul, (1)

L

La Fontaine, Jean, (1)

laterborns, and receptivity to innovation, (1)

Lawrence, T. E., (1)

Lawson, Alvin, (1)

Lea, Henry, (1)

leadership, (1)

Lederer, Wolfgang, (1)

Lefkowitz, Mary, (1)

Legion for the Survival of Freedom, (1)

Lehigh University, (1)

Lehman, Jeffrey, (1), (2), (3)

Leikind, Bernard, (1)

Leuchter Report, The, (1)

Leviathan, (1)

Levin, J. S., (1)

Liberty Lobby, (1), (2), (3)

Life After Life, (1)

life expectancy, (1)

life span, (1)

Lifetide (1)

Linde, Andrei, (1)

locus of control

and belief, (1)

Loftus, Elizabeth, (1), (2)

criticized by Holocaust deniers, (1)

and John Demjanjuk, (1)

Logic for the Millions, (1)

“lottery problem,” (1)

Louisiana creationism trial

see Edwards v. Aguillard

Louisiana Tech University, (1)

Lynn, Richard, (1)

M

MacCready, Paul, (1)

Mack, John, (1), (2), (3)

Madagascar plan, (1)

magic, smart people and, (1)

Majdanek, (1)

Malinowski, Bronislaw, (1)

Malzmueller, Theodor, (1)

Mander, Alfred, (1)

Mankind Quarterly, (1)

Marcellus, Tom, (1), (2)

Marco Polo, (1)

Markus, H., (1)

Marshall, Justice Thurgood, (1)

Martin, Ray, (1)

mass hysterias, (1), (2)

Masson, Jeffrey, (1)

Mathematical Association of America, (1)

Mattogno, Carlo, (1)

Mauthausen, (1)

maximum life potential, (1)

Mayer, Arno, (1), (2)

Mayr, Ernst, (1)

McCalden, William, (1)

McDonough, Tom, (1)

McGarry, James, (1)

McLean, Bill, (1)

McLean v. Arkansas, (1)

McMartin Preschool case, (1)

Medawar, Peter, (1)

“memory and identity problem,” (1)

Mencken, H. L., (1)

Menozzi, Paolo, (1)

Mensa, (1)

Mermelstein, Mel, (1)

Messer, W. S., (1)

Midelfort, H. C. E. (1)

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, (1)

Milford, Gary, (1)

Miller, Peter, (1)

Miller, Stanley, (1)

Mind of God, The, (1)

miracles, Hume on, (1)

Mithen, Steven, (1)

model(s), (1)

Moody, Raymond, (1), (2)

moral equivalence argument, (1), (2), (3)

moral panics, (1), (2)

morality

as human creation, (1)

and meaning, (1)

as relative to group standards, (1)

Mordrel, Tristan, (1)

Mormons, (1)

Morris, Henry, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, (1)

Müller, Filip, (1)

multiplication of speciation, (1)

Murray, Charles, (1)

Mutations, (1)

mystical experiences, (1)

mysticism, defined, (1)

myths, purpose of, (1)

N

Nason, Susan, (1)

National Association of Biology Teachers, (1)

National Center for Science Education, (1), (2)

National Science Foundation, (1)

National Socialist German Workers Party, Foreign Organization (NSDAP/AO), (1)

National Vanguard, (1)

natura non facit saltum, (1)

natural selection, (1)

limitations of, (1)

preserves gains, eradicates mistakes, (1)

as tautological argument, (1)

Natural Theology, (1)

Neanderthals, (1)

near-death experience (NDE), (1)

Nebraska Man, (1)

Neher, Andrew, (1)

neo-Nazis, (1), (2)

neuroticism, (1)

New Age, The: Notes of a Fringe Watcher, (1)

New Age beliefs, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9)

New Order, The, (1)

New Religious Movements, (1)

Newberry, Benjamin, (1)

Newton, Isaac, (1), (2), (3)

Nickerson, Raymond, (1), (2)

Nisbett, R. (1)

Nishioka, Masanori, (1)

Niven, Larry, (1)

Noachian flood story, (1)

Nobel Prize, (1)

Noelle, David, (1)

Noontide Press, (1), (2)

Not Out of Africa, (1)

Nouvelle Ecole, (1)

numerology, (1)

Nuremberg trials, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Nye, Bill, (1)

O

Objectivism, (1)

objectivity, defined, (1)

observation

defined, (1)

influenced by observer and theory, (1)

O’Connor, Justice Sandra Day, (1)

Olson, Richard, (1), (2)

Omega Point Theory, (1)

and global general relativity, (1)

Martin Gardner on, (1)

Penrose and Hawking’s rejection of, (1)

problems with, (1)

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, (1), (2)

On the Wild Side, (1)

openness to experience, (1)

operant conditioning, as explanation for belief, (1)

Orgonomy, (1)

origin of life, (1)

orthogonality

intelligence and belief, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Other Side, The, (1), (2), (3)

Otis, L. (Laura) P., (1), (2)

Out of Africa theory of human origins, (1)

out-of-body experience (OBE), (1), (2)

Overton Judge William R., (1)

P

Paley, William, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Panglossian paradigm, (1)

Pannenberg, Wolfhart, (1)

paradigm, (1), (2), (3)

paradigm shift, (1), (2), (3), (4)

paranoia, (1)

paranormal phenomena, (1), (2)

belief in, (1), (2)

gender and, (1)

Pasley, Laura, (1)

Passion of Ayn Rand, The, (1)

Passport to the Cosmos, (1)

past-life memories, (1)

Pauling, Linus, (1)

Pearson Roger, (1)

PEER (Program for Extraordinary Experience Research), (1)

Peikoff, Leonard, (1)

Penrose, Roger, (1), (2)

Penzias, Arno, (1)

Perez, Robert, (1)

perithanatic experience

see near-death experience (NDE)

Perkins, David, (1), (2)

personality, (1)

and belief, (1)

person-by-situation effects, (1)

“Phantom Gasser of Mattoon,” (1), (2)

Phillips, B., (1)

Philosophy of Physical Science, The, (1)

Physics of Immortality, The: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead, (1), (2), (3)

Physics of Morality, The, (1)

Piazza, Alberto, (1)

Piltdown Man, (1)

Pinch, J. (1)

Pinker, Steve, (1)

Pioneer Fund, (1)

Pirsig, Robert, (1)

Pirsig’s Paradox, (1)

Pittsburgh Creation Society, (1)

Planck, Max, (1)

Plato, (1), (2)

Poirier, Robert G., (1)

political extremists, characteristics of, (1)

Polkinghorne, John, (1)

Pons, Stanley, (1)

Pope, Alexander, (1), (2)

post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy, (1)

post hoc rationalization, (1)

postmodernism, (1)

Powell, Justice Lewis, (1), (2)

Poznan speech by Himmler, (1)

precognition, (1), (2), (3)

prejudice, (1), (2)

Presley, Elvis, (1)

Principia Mathematica, (1)

probability and chance, laws of, (1), (2)

problem-solving inadequacies, (1)

Procter & Gamble’s “Satanic” logo, (1)

progress, in science and culture, (1)

Project Mogul, (1)

Prothero, Don, (1)

proving a negative, (1)

pseudohistory, (1), (2)

reasons for belief in, (1)

pseudoscience, (1), (2), (3)

compared with science, (1), (2)

fallacy of, (1)

reasons for belief in, (1)

pseudoscientific thinking

dependence on anecdotes, (1)

disparity of claims and evidence, (1)

rationalizations of, (1)

using language of science, (1)

psi gap, (1)

psychic hotlines, (1)

psychic mediums, (1)

psychic (psi) phenomena, (1)

psychic power, (1), (2), (3), (4)

psychology of belief, (1)

punctuated equilibrium, (1), (2)

Pursel, Jack, (1)

Q

quantum mechanics

“Copenhagen interpretation” of, (1)

Tipler’s views on, (1), (2)

R

race

The Bell Curve on, (1)

Cavalli-Sforza on, (1)

comparison with sexual categories, (1)

and culture, (1)

as fuzzy sets, (1)

Pearson on racial differences, (1)

Rushton on racial differences, (1)

Race and Civilization, (1)

Ramona, Gary and Holly, (1)

“Ramtha”-based cult, (1)

Rand, Ayn, (1)

Randi, James, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)

Rassinier, Paul, (1), (2)

rational reasons for belief, (1), (2)

rationalism, defined, (1)

rationalization, (1), (2)

of pseudoscientific thinking, (1)

see also ad hoc rationalization; post hoc rationalization

Raven, Greg, (1)

Reasons to Believe, (1)

Recollections of Death, (1)

recovered memory movement, (1), (2), (3)

and witch craze, (1)

see also false memory syndrome

reductio ad absurdum fallacy, (1)

Rehnquist, Chief Justice William, (1), (2)

Reich, Wilhelm, (1)

religion, (1), (2), (3)

religiosity, (1), (2)

Relman, Arnold S., (1)

Remarks, (1), (2)

resurrection, (1)

revisionism, (1), (2)

Holocaust, (1), (2)

Richardson, James, (1)

Right, (1)

Right Way, The, (1)

Robbins, Tony, (1)

Rollins, Lew, (1)

Roques, Henri, (1)

Rose, Richard, (1)

Ross, Hugh, (1)

“Roswell Incident,” (1)

Rozett, Robert, (1)

Rubin, Irv, (1)

Rumor of Auschwitz, The, (1)

rumors, (1)

Ruse, Michael, (1), (2)

Rushton, Philippe, (1)

S

Sabom, Michael, (1)

Sagan, Carl, (1), (2), (3)

same-worlds model of science and religion, (1)

Santilli, Ray, (1)

Sarton, George, (1)

Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend, (1)

Satanic ritual abuse, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Satanism Scare, The, (1)

Scalia, Justice Antonin, (1), (2)

Scheidl, Franz, (1)

Schmidt, Matthias, (1)

scholars, weird beliefs of, (1), (2)

Schoonmaker, F., (1)

Schopenhauer, Arthur, (1)

Schwarz, Jack, (1)

science, (1)

advances in, (1)

v. anecdotes, (1)

and beliefs, (1)

as cumulative and progressive, (1), (2)

as defined by Nobelists, (1)

as dominant force in culture, (1)

experimental v. historical, (1)

and God, (1), (2)

and immortality, (1)

internalist v. externalist view of, (1)

model(s) of, (1)

practitioners unified against creationists, (1)

relationship with religion, (1), (2)

self-correcting nature of, (1), (2), (3)

and skepticism, (1)

as social process, (1)

and supernatural explanations, (1)

and superstition, (1)

as theory-laden, (1)

as warfare against religion, (1)

Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus, (1)

Science and Creation booklets, (1)

Science Deified and Science Defied, (1)

science fiction, (1), (2)

Scientific American, (1)

scientific laws, defined, (1)

scientific method

difficulty in defining, (1)

elements of, (1)

scientific progress, defined, (1)

Scientific Remote Viewing (SRV), (1)

scientism, (1)

scientists, (1)

beliefs of, (1), (2), (3), (4)

and confirmation bias, (1)

Scientology, Church of, (1)

Scopes, John T., (1)

Scopes “Monkey Trial,” (1), (2), (3)

Scott, Eugenie, (1)

Search for Extra-Terrestrial

Intelligence (SETI), (1), (2), (3)

Sebald, Hans, (1)

Second Law of Thermodynamics, (1)

Secret Life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions, (1)

Segraves, Kelly, (1)

Segraves, Nell, (1)

separate-worlds model of science and religion, (1)

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, (1)

Shadowen, Kenneth, (1)

Shakespeare, William, (1)

Sheils, Dean, (1)

Sherman, Bonnie, (1)

Shockley, William, (1)

sibling competition, (1)

Silicon Valley, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Silk, Joseph, (1)

Simon & Schuster, (1)

Simon Wiesenthal Center, (1), (2)

Simonton, Dean Keith, (1)

Singer, Barry, (1)

Singer, Margaret, (1)

situational attribution, (1)

Six Million Lie, The, (1)

Six Million Swindle, The, (1)

Skeptic, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)

skeptical movement, assumptions in, (1)

skepticism, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

antecedent v. consequent, (1)

college professors, (1)

essential tension with credulity, (1), (2)

and science, (1), (2)

skeptics

locus of control, (1)

Skeptics Society, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Skinner, B. F., (1), (2)

slippery slope fallacy, (1)

smart people

belief in weird things, (1)

defined, (1)

intelligence of, (1), (2)

skilled at defending beliefs, (1)

UFOs and alien abductions, (1)

Smith, Bradley, (1)

ad for open debate about Holocaust, (1), (2)

and David Cole, (1)

dialogue with Phil Donahue, (1)

dialogue with Michael Shermer, (1)

endorsement of Remarks, (1)

Smith, Joseph, (1)

Smolin, Lee, (1)

snapshot fallacy, (1)

Snelson, Jay Stuart, (1)

Socrates, (1)

Sonderkommando, (1), (2), (3)

secret photograph taken by, (1)

soul, (1)

“special action,” (1), (2)

Speer, Albert, (1)

on silence of Nazi leadership, (1)

on Hitler’s attitude toward Jews, (1)

on Hitler’s role in the Holocaust, (1)

Spinoza, Baruch, (1), (2)

Sputnik I, (1)

Star Trek, (1)

Starkey, Marion, (1)

Sternberg, Robert, (1)

Stevens, Justice John Paul, (1)

Strieber, Whitley, (1)

Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The, (1), (2)

suggestive talk therapy, (1)

Sulloway, Frank, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

birth order studies, (1)

superstition, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)

education and, (1)

environment and, (1)

gender and, (1)

survivor testimony, unreliability of, (1)

synchronicity, (1)

T

Tales of the Holohoax, (1)

Tao of Physics, The: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism, (1), (2), (3)

Tart, Charles, (1)

Taubes, Gary, (1)

Tavris, Carol, (1)

Taylor John, (1)

Temple University, (1), (2)

theory(ies), (1), (2)

defined, (1), (2)

misuse of, (1)

and paradigm shifts, (1)

and reality, (1)

receptivity to, (1)

Thier, Samuel O., (1)

Thomas, Cal, (1)

Thomas, Keith, (1)

Thorne, Kip, (1), (2)

Threat, The: The Secret Agenda—What the Aliens Really Want… and How They Plan to Get It, (1)

Tipler, Frank, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

birth order effects on, (1)

conservative nature of, (1)

early work, (1)

summary of theory, (1), (2)

theory refuted, (1)

and time travel, (1)

To Know a Fly, (1)

Tobacyk, Jerome, (1)

Tooby, John, (1)

Topkis, Jay, (1)

Toronto Sun, (1)

Trail of the Fox, The, (1)

trait theory, (1)

Transcendental Meditation, (1)

transitional fossils, (1)

Treatise in Defense Against Those Who Accuse Me of Falsifying History, (1)

Trevor-Roper, Hugh, (1), (2)

Trobriand Islanders, (1)

truth

relativist view of, (1)

stages of, (1)

Truth, The, (1)

tu quoque fallacy, (1)

Tucker, William, (1)

Tulane University, (1)

Turner, J. S., (1)

Turning Point, The, (1)

Turowski, Eugen, (1)

U

UFO Controversy in America, The, (1)

UFO Incident, The, (1)

UFOlogists, (1)

UFOlogy, (1)

UFOs, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

University of California at Berkely, (1)

University of Toronto, (1)

USWeb, (1), (2)

Uthman, Ed, (1)

V

validation, (1)

Van Praagh, James, (1), (2)

“Vanishing Hitchhiker” legend, (1)

Victor, Jeffrey, (1)

Vogl, Rodney, (1)

Voltaire, (1), (2)

Vyse, Stuart, (1)

w

Wade, Carole, (1)

Walker, Richard, (1)

Wallace, Alfred Russel, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Wannsee Conference, (1), (2), (3)

War and the Breed, (1)

warfare model of science and religion, (1), (2)

watchmaker argument, as proof of God, (1), (2)

Watson, Lyall, (1)

Weber, Mark, (1), (2)

on Nuremberg trials, (1)

Webster, Richard, (1)

weird beliefs

smart biases in defending, (1)

weird things

smart people believing, (1)

defined, (1)

Western Destiny, (1)

Wheeler, John Archibald, (1)

Whewell, William, (1)

Whitcomb, John, (1)

White, Justice Byron, (1)

White, Meg, (1)

Whitney, Glayde, (1)

Why Did the Heavens Not Darken (1)

Why Freud Was Wrong, (1)

Wikoff, Jack, (1), (2), (3)

Wilcox, Laird, (1)

Winfrey, Oprah, (1)

Wise, Robert, (1)

witch crazes, (1), (2)

Witness for the Defense, (1)

Wowk, Brian, (1)

Wulff, David, (1)

X

X-Files, The, (1)

Y

Yale Law School, (1)

Yocky, Francis Parker, (1)

Z

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, (1)

Zener cards, (1)

Zukav, Gary, (1)

Zündel, Ernst, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

described by David Cole, (1)

and “free speech” trial, (1)

Zyklon-B gas, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)