Why Statues Weep by French, Christopher C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Foreword Introduction A Note on Sources Skeptical Stats 1 THERE MUST BE SOMETHING IN IT

Seeing is Believing? Psychic Con-Men In Search of Monsters? Millennium

2 FAVOURITE POPULAR MYTHS

Nostradamus Said What? Myths of Secret Powers The Ten-Percent Solution The Mary Celeste Revisited Behind the Red Planet

3 WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ...?

The Summer of '91 Explaining the Shroud: Steve Donnelly Interviews Joe Nickell What Hath Carlos Wrought? Rendlesham: Britain's Roswell Foreign Objects: Testing an Alien Implant

4 BEYOND A JOKE

Miracle Cures: Only Believe Sprite 1 What's Wrong with Alternative Medicine? Motivated Distortion of Personal Memory for Trauma The Mosaic of Memory

5 FAKING IT

Muddying the Waters Knock: Some New Evidence A Case of Spirits Sprite 2 The Amazing Dummy Pill Radio Ga-Ga

6 SCIENCE AND ANTI-SCIENCE

Death and the Microtubules A Look at Probability and Coincidence Abduction Theory Sprite 3

7 SKEPTICS SPEAK

Proper Criticism A Panoply of Paranormal Piffle: Stephen Fry Women are NOT from Gullibull Paul Daniels

8 STATE OF THE ART

Perpetuum Mobile: The Perpetual Search for Perpetual Motion Women and the New Age An Anaesthesiologist Examines the Pam Reynolds Story Why Have UFOs Changed Speed over the Years? Magicians, Mediums and Psychics

9 DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?

Something to Shout About: The Documentation of a Miracle? Scourge of the Godmen: B. Premanand The Trouble with Psychics

Acknowledgements Index of Contributors Index of subjects and sources