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Index
Praise
Title Page
Imprint Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Section 1: Core Concepts Every Skeptic Should Know
1. Scientific Skepticism
Neuropsychological Humility and Mechanisms of Deception
2. Memory Fallibility and False Memory Syndrome
3. Fallibility of Perception
4. Pareidolia
5. Hyperactive Agency Detection
6. Hypnagogia
7. Ideomotor Effect
Metacognition
8. Dunning-Kruger Effect
9. Motivated Reasoning
10. Arguments and Logical Fallacies
11. Cognitive Biases and Heuristics
12. Confirmation Bias
13. Appeal to Antiquity
14. Appeal to Nature
15. Fundamental Attribution Error
16. Anomaly Hunting
17. Data Mining
18. Coincidence
Science and Pseudoscience
19. Methodological Naturalism and Its Critics
20. Postmodernism
21. Occam’s Razor
22. Pseudoscience and the Demarcation Problem
23. Denialism
24. P-Hacking and Other Research Foibles
25. Conspiracy Theories
26. Witch Hunts
27. Placebo Effects
28. Anecdote
Iconic Cautionary Tales from History
29. The “Clever Hans” Effect
30. The Hawthorne Effect
31. Cold Reading
32. Free Energy
33. Quantum Woo
34. Homunculus Theory
35. Intelligent Design
36. Vitalism and Dualism
37. N-Rays
38. Positive Thinking
39. Pyramid Scheme
Section 2: Adventures in Skepticism
40. Motivated Reasoning About Genetically Modified Organisms
41. Dennis Lee and Free Energy
42. Holly-woo
43. The Singularity
44. The Warrens and Ghost Hunting
45. Loose Thinking About Loose Change
Section 3: Skepticism and the Media
46. Fake News
47. False Balance
48. Science Journalism
49. Enter the Matrix
50. Microbiomania
51. Reporting Epigenetics
Section 4: Death by Pseudoscience
52. Death by Naturopathy
53. Exorcism: Medieval Beliefs Yield Medieval Results
54. Death by Denial
55: Suffer the Children
Section 5: Changing Yourself and the World
56. Being Skeptical
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
References
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