Book Reviews(Index)

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Skeptics are avid book readers. Here are reviews of some famous and not-so-famous books.

Contents

[edit] Skeptical Books

Martin Gardner : Science Good, Bad and Bogus

Martin Gardner : Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science

Paul Gross, Norman Levitt : Higher Superstition

Paul Gross, Norman Levitt, Martin Lewis : The Flight From Science and Reason

Charles Mackay: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

James Randi : The Truth about Uri Geller

Carl Sagan : The Demon-Haunted World

Michael Shermer : Why People Believe Weird Things

Darrell Huff : How to Lie with Statistics

[edit] Science Books

Richard Dawkins : The Blind Watchmaker

Jared Diamond : Guns, Germs, and Steel

Loren Eiseley : The Star Thrower

James Gleick: Chaos

Steve Jones : Almost Like a Whale

Steve Jones : Darwin's Ghost

Oliver Sacks: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

[edit] Pseudoscience Books

Kevin Trudeau : Natural cures "They" don't want you to know about

[edit] Religion Books

Robin Lane Fox : The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible

Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy : The Jesus Mysteries

Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason

Daniel C. Dennett: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

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