Contents
Foreword by Simon Hoggart
Introduction by Wendy M. Grossman
1
THERE MUST BE SOMETHING IN IT (Wendy M. Grossman)
Seeing is Believing? (Susan Blackmore)
Psychic Con-Men (Richard Wiseman and Emma Greening)
In Search of Monsters? (Charles Paxton)
Millennium (Kevin McClure)
2
FAVOURITE POPULAR MYTHS (Wendy M. Grossman)
Nostradamus Said What? (David Hambling)
Myths of Secret Powers (Andrew Brice)
The Ten-Percent Solution (Barry Beyerstein)
The Mary Celeste Revisited (Alan Hunt)
Behind the Red Planet (Paul Chambers)
3
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ... ? (Wendy M. Grossman)
The Summer of '91 (Martin Hempstead)
Explaining the Shroud: Steve Donnelly Interviews Joe Nickell
What Hath Carlos Wrought? (Robert McGrath)
Rendlesham: Britain's Roswell (David Clarke)
Foreign Objects: Testing an Alien Implant (Susan Blackmore
and David T. Patton)
4
BEYOND A JOKE (Wendy M. Grossman)
Miracle Cures: Only Believe (John Diamond)
Sprite 1 (Donald Rooum)
What's Wrong with Alternative Medicine? (Thurstan Brewin)
Motivated Distortion of Personal Memory for Trauma
(Mark Pendergrast)
The Mosaic of Memory (Chris French)
5
FAKING IT (Wendy M. Grossman)
Muddying the Waters (David Langford)
Knock: Some New Evidence (David Berman)
A Case of Spirits (Chris Willis)
Sprite 2 (Donald Rooum)
The Amazing Dummy Pill (Edzard Ernst)
Radio Ga-Ga (Tony Youens)
6
SCIENCE AND ANTI-SCIENCE (Wendy M. Grossman)
Death and the Microtubules (Susan Blackmore)
A Look at Probability and Coincidence (Chip Denman)
Abduction Theory (Nick Rose)
Sprite 3 (Donald Rooum)
7
SKEPTICS SPEAK (Wendy M. Grossman)
Proper Criticism (Ray Hyman)
A Panoply of Paranormal Piffle: Stephen Fry (Steve Donnelly)
Women are NOT from Gullibull (Lucy Sherriff)
Paul Daniels (Michael Hutchinson)
8
STATE OF THE ART (Wendy M. Grossman)
Perpetuum Mobile: The Perpetual Search for Perpetual
    Motion (Anthony Garrett)
Women and the New Age (Lucy Fisher)
An Anaesthesiologist Examines the Pam Reynolds
    Story (Gerald Woerlee)
Why Have UFOs Changed Speed over the Years?
(Martin S. Kottmeyer)>
Magicians, Mediums and Psychics (David Alexander
9
DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES? (Wendy M. Grossman)
Something to Shout About: The Documentation of a Miracle?
(Dr Peter May)
Scourge of the Godmen: B. Premanand (Lewis Jones)
The Trouble with Psychics (Richard Wiseman)
index of Contributors
Index of subjects and sources