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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Epigraphs
Table of Contents
Foreword: Navigating a Post-Truth World: Ten Enduring Lessons from the Study of Pseudoscience
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Pseudoscience: What It Costs and Efforts to Fight It
I. The Basics of Pseudoscience
1. Pseudoscience and the Pursuit of Truth
2. The Psychology of (Pseudo)Science: Cognitive, Social, and Cultural Factors
3. The Illusion of Causality: A Cognitive Bias Underlying Pseudoscience
4. Hard Science, Soft Science, and Pseudoscience: Implications of Research on the Hierarchy of the Sciences
II. What Pseudoscience Costs Society
5. Food-o-science Pseudoscience: The Weapons and Tactics in the War on Crop Biotechnology
6. An Inside Look at Naturopathic Medicine: A Whistleblower’s Deconstruction of Its Core Principles
7. Risky Play and Growing Up: How to Understand the Overprotection of the Next Generation
8. The Anti-Vaccine Movement: A Litany of Fallacy and Errors
III. Scientific (or Pseudoscientific) Soundness
9. Understanding Pseudoscience Vulnerability through Epistemological Development, Critical Thinking, and Science Literacy
10. Scientific Failure as a Public Good: Illustrating the Process of Science and Its Contrast with Pseudoscience
11. Evidence-Based Practice as a Driver of Pseudoscience in Prevention Research
12. Scientific Soundness and the Problem of Predatory Journals
13. Pseudoscience, Coming to a Peer-Reviewed Journal Near You
IV. Pseudoscience in the Mainstream
14. “Integrative” Medicine: Integrating Quackery with Science-Based Medicine
15. Hypnosis: Science, Pseudoscience, and Nonsense
16. Abuses and Misuses of Intelligence Tests: Facts and Misconceptions
17. Reflections on Pseudoscience and Parapsychology: From Here to There and (Slightly) Back Again
V. Science Activism: How People Think about Pseudoscience
18. Using Case Studies to Combat a Pseudoscience Culture
19. “HIV Does Not Cause AIDS”: A Journey into AIDS Denialism
20. Swaying Pseudoscience: The Inoculation Effect
21. The Challenges of Changing Minds: How Confirmation Bias and Pattern Recognition Affect Our Search for Meaning
VI. Conclusion
22. Truth Shall Prevail
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