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Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience
Articles included in the Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: From Alien Abductions to Zone Therapy, Dr. William F. Williams, general editor, Facts on File, Inc., ISBN 0-8160-3351-X.

Articles with marked subarticles

 * Fad diets – Liquid diets*; Single-food diets*; Combined foods*; Fasting and modified fasting*; High protein/low carbohydrate diets*; Cancer treatment diets**;
 * Fad diets – Cancer treatment diets – Gerson Diet*; Bristol Diet*;

Major articles
over 2 pages
 * Eugenics;
 * Lourdes;
 * Out-of-body experience or OBE;
 * Psychic detectives;

Significant articles
3 paragraphs to 2 pages
 * Abductions, alien or Alien abductions; Albert Abrams; Acupressure; Acupuncture; Samuel Hopkins Adams; Louis Rodolphe Agassiz; Age of the earth; Alchemy; Alexander Technique; Altered states of consciousness; Alternative medicine; American Society for Psychical Research; Amityville Horror; Angel hair (folklore); Antimatter; Aphrodisiacs; Apparitions; Applied kinesiology; Apports; Arkeology; Aromatherapy; Ashkir-Jobson Trianion Guild; Asians in America before Columbus; Astral/etheric body or Astral body or Etheric body; Astrology; Astronauts, ancient or Ancient astronauts; Atlantis & Lemuria or Atlantis or Lemuria; Auras; Automatic writing; Avebury; Ayurvedic medicine;
 * Bach flower remedies; Cleve Backster; Francis Bacon; Baconianism; Ball lightning; Baquet; Beauty treatments; Henri-Louis Bergson; Charles Berlitz; Bermuda Triangle; Annie Besant; Bicameral mind; Big Bang; Bigfoot; Alfred Binet; Biofeedback; Biorhythms; Birth control; Black box; Black holes; Blackstrap molasses; Madame Blavatsky or Helena Petrovna Blavatsky; Frederick Bligh Bond; Borley Rectory; Boston Society for Psychical Research; Bouvet Island; Bridey Murphy; John Romulus Brinkley; Brunonianism; Cyril Burt;
 * Cardiff Giant; Catastrophism; Cattle mutilations; Edgar Cayce; Celery; Celestial spheres; Census of Hallucinations; Center for Scientific Anomalies Research; Houston Stewart Chamberlain; Champ (folklore); Channeling; Chastity belts; Chiropractic; Christian Science; Chromotherapy; Church of Scientology; Cloning; Coitus reservatus; Cold fusion; George Combe; Communigraph; William R. Corliss; Correspondence, theories of or Theories of correspondence; Cosmologies, variant or Variant cosmologies; Cottingley fairies; Emile Coué; Covens; Craniosacral therapy; Creation science; William Crookes; Crop circles; Cross-correspondences; Aleister Crowley; Cryptozoology; Crystal gazing; Cuforhedake Brane-Fude; Georges Cuvier; Cycles theories;
 * John Darsee; Daydreaming; Deathbed visions; Déjà vu; de Loys's Ape; Deluge Man; Demons; Dermo-optical perception; Louis de Rougemont; Dianetics; Diluvialism; Dinosaurs, contemporary or Contemporary dinosaurs; Divination; Divine Science; Dolphins; Dowsing; Arthur Conan Doyle; Dreams; Ruth B. Drown; Dualisms; John William Dunne;
 * Earth-centered astronomy; Earthlights; Easter Island; Eclecticism; Electromagnetic fields; Electronic voice phenomenon; Electrophysiology; Henry Havelock Ellis; Evolution, progressive or Progressive evolution; Exorcism; Exploration hoaxes; Extrasensory perception; Extraterrestrial intelligence, Communication with or Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence or CETI; Eyeless sight;
 * Fad diets*; Fairies; Faith healing; False Memory Syndrome; Fate Magazine; Fatima; Firewalking; Morris Fishbein; Flat Earth Society; Horace Fletcher; Antony G. N. Flew; Theodore Flournoy; Flying saucers, crashed or Crashed flying saucers; Arthur Ford (psychic); Formative causation; Charles Hoy Fort; Fortean Society; Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man; Orson Fowler; Sigmund Freud; Futurology;
 * Gaia hypothesis; Galenism; Francis Galton; Ganzfeld procedure; Garabandal Virgin; Martin Gardner; Michel Gauquelin; Uri Geller; Gender theory; Geocentrism; Germ theory; Gerson therapy; Ghost lights; Ghosts; Giants; Duane T. Gish; Goat glands; Joseph de Gobineau; Stephen Jay Gould; Sylvester Graham; Graphology; Great chain of being; Hans Friedrich K. Gunther; Guru;
 * Ernst Haeckel; Alister Hardy; William Harvey; Heliocentrism; Herbal medicine; Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; Heroic medicine; Bernard Heuvelmans; Thor Heyerdahl; Hollow Earth doctrine or Hohlweltehre; Homeopathy; Homunculus; Hans Hörbiger; Harry Houdini; Fred Hoyle; Thomas Jay Hudson; Humoral theory; Hundredth Monkey; Hunza people; J. Allen Hynek; Hyperspace; Hypnosis;
 * I Ching; Incorruptibility; Incubus and Succubus; Instinct; Institute for Creation Research; Institute fur Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psycholhygiene or Institute for Border Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene; Intelligence tests; Invisibility; Iridology; Ivy League posture photographs;
 * J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies; William James; Januarius, Miracle of Saint or Miracle of St. Januarius; Jenny Haniver; Arthur Jensen; Carl Gustav Jung;
 * John A. Keel; John Harvey Kellogg; Kensington Stone; Kickapoo Oil; Walter John Kilner; Kinderhook plates; King Solomon's mines; Alfred C. Kinsey; Kirlian photography; Misuaki Kiyota; Philip J. Klass; Knossos; Arthur Koestler; Kraken; Thomas S. Kuhn; Kundalini;
 * Lake monsters; Jean Baptiste Lamarck; Lamarckianism; Laplacian physics; Laser beams; Alfred A. Lawson; Lawsonomy; Lemmings; Levitation; Walter J. Levy; Ley lines; Lindorms; Loch Ness Monster; Cesare Lombroso; Lost tribes of Israel; Percival Lowell; Lucky numbers and Unlucky numbers; Lycanthropy; Charles Lyell; Lysenkoism;
 * Roy Mackal; Macrobiotics; Magic; Thomas Robert Malthus; Margery controversy; Mars canals; Karl Marx; Mary Celeste; Massage; Materializations; Meditation; Medium; Megaliths; Megavitamin therapy; Mentalism; Franz Anton Mesmer; Mesmerism; Meteorite; Microbe killer; Millenarianism; Mind control; Mind mapping; Missing day in time; Missing link; Mokele-mbembe; James Burnett Monboddo; Ruth Montgomery; Monuments of Mars; Moon, life on the or Life on the moon; Morag; Elaine Morgan; Mu; Multiple personalities; Frederic William Henry Myers; Mystery Hill;
 * Natural law; Natural theology; Naturopathy; Nazca lines; Nazi racism; Near-death experience or NDE; Nebular hypothesis; Neoastrology; Neopaganism; Neptunism; Neural organization technique; Neurolinguistic programming; New Age Movement; Isaac Newton; Nightmares; Noetics; Nostradamus; Nostrums; Noted Witnesses for Psychic Occurrences; N-rays; Numerology;
 * Occam's Razor; Occultism; Od; Ogopogo; Omega point; Omen; Ontogeny and phylogeny; Onza; Oracle; Orchis extract; Orgueil meteorite; Orthogenesis; Antoon Cornelis Oudemans; Ouija board;
 * William Paley; Palingenesy; Ray Palmer; Palmistry; Paluxy tracks; Paracryptozoology; Paraphysics; Parapsychology; Parapsychology Foundation; Louis Pasteur; Past-life regression; Linus C. Pauling; Robert Edwin Peary; Perpetual motion machine or Perpetuum mobile; Peruna; Philadelphia experiment; Philosophy of science on the demarkation of science and pseudoscience; Phlogiston; Phrenology; Physiognomy; Piltdown man; Lydia E. Pinkham; Piri Reis map; Placebo effect; Planchette; Pliny the Elder; Polar shift; Poltergeist; Polywater; Karl Popper; Possession; Precolumbian discoveries of America; Premonition; George McCready Price; Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory or PEAR; Prophecy; Psionics; Psychiatry; Psychic archeology; Psychic photography; Psychic surgery; Psychical research; Psychokinesis or PK; Psychoanalytic theory; Psychosynthesis; Andrija Henry Puharich; Pyramid inch; Pyramidology;
 * Racial theories; Radiesthesia; Rainmaking; Tuesday Lobsang Rampa; James Randi; Raudive tapes; Reflectograph; Reflexology; Wilhelm Reich; Karl von Reichenbach; Reincarnation; Religious Science; Remote viewing; Joseph Banks Rhine; Rolfing; Root races; Alfred Rosenberg;
 * Carl Sagan; Sarsaparillas; Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli; Science fiction and science; Scientism; Scientology; Sea serpents; Sexuality; Rupert Sheldrake; Shroud of Turin; Sight without glasses; Edward Simpson; Skeptics' magazines; Skeptics Society; Samuel G. Soal; Social Darwinism; Society for Psychical Research or SPR; Sociobiology; SORRAT or Society for Research on Rapport and Telekinesis; Sourcebook Project; Soviet science; Spiricom; Spirit photography; Spiritualism; Spontaneous generation; Johann Christophe Gaspar Spurzheim; Steinach rejuvenation operation; Rudolf Steiner; Ian Stevenson; Sthenometer; Stigmata; Stonehenge; Tom Stonier; Structural patterning; William Stukeley; Sun stood still, Day the or Day the sun stood still; John Cleves Symmes; Synesthesia;
 * Table rapping; Talking apes; The Tao of Physics; Tar water; Tasaday tribe; Tatzelwurm; John G. Taylor; Cyrus Reed Teed; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; Telepathy; Teleportation; Wilhelm Tenhaeff; Theosophy; Thoughtography; Time; Time travel; Titanic; Mary Toft; Transcendental Meditation; Transmutation of elements; Troy, ancient; Twins;
 * UFOlogy; Unification Church;
 * Vaccination; Vacuum; Vampires; Vandermeulen Spirit Indicator; Velikovsky affair; Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation; Vikings in America; Vinland map; Virgil; Vitalism; Voodoo;
 * Alfred Russel Wallace; Water cures; Water divining; Weeping statues; Witchcraft;
 * Xenoglossia;
 * Yeti; Yoga;
 * Zen; Zener cards; Zimbabwe; Zombies;

Minor articles
1 or 2 paragraphs
 * Abiogenesis; Abominable Snowman; Acu-yoga; Almas; Animal magnetism; Animal psi; Antigravity machines; Archeus; Atomism; Aurora Islands;
 * Roger Babson; Sabine Baring-Gould; William Fletcher Barrett; Johann Beringer; Raymond Bernard; Bible Science Association; Bilious pills; Biometer; Bions; Book of Dyzan; Saint Brendan; Brown Mountain lights; Godfried Bueren;
 * Carnivorous trees; Carlos Castandeda; Celestial bed; Milbourne Christopher; Clairvoyance; Arthur C. Clarke; Cloud busting; Coelacanth; Colorado Man; Committee for the Scientific Investigation of the Claims of the Paranormal; Condon Report; Continental drift; Conviction science; Frederick Albert Cook; Counting horses; Cranial osteopathy; Creation Science Research Center; Criminal genes; Cryogenics; Cryonics;
 * Charles Robert Darwin; Andrew Jackson Davis; Dean Space Drive; Death rays; de Tromelin cylinder; Devil's Sea;
 * Arnold Ehret; Electric-shock treatment;
 * Wilhelm Fliess; Fortean Times; Fourth dimension;
 * Vincent H. Gaddis; Franz Joseph Gall; Galvanism; Goethean science; Grape cure; Grew/Malphigi or Nehemiah Grew and Marcello Malphigi;
 * John B. Hasted; Hellerwork; Hieronymous machine; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Hoxsey treatment; Ray Hyman;
 * International Fortean Organization or INFO; International Society of Cryptozoology; IQ tests;
 * Jin Shin Do; Jin Shin Jyutsu; Joseph of Copertino;
 * Kabbalah; Kachinas; Paul Kammerer; William F. Koch; Kon-Tiki; Krebiozen;
 * Laetrile; Timothy Leary; Loch Ness Investigation Bureau;
 * Malthusianism; Marfa lights; Cotton Mather; Megalithic yard; Donald H. Menzel; Merlin; Mermaids; Metal bending; Military use of psychics; Minnesota Iceman; Ann Moore; Mutual UFO Network;
 * Nature-nurture debate; Nederlandse Vereniging voor Parapsychologie; Newman energy machine;
 * Occult chemistry; Orang-pendek; Orffyreus's wheel; Orgone energy;
 * Paracelsus; Elisha Perkins; Philip (artificial ghost); Phlebotomy; Photographic evidence; Pleiades; Precognition; George Psamanazar;
 * Rabbits; Radionics;
 * Ivan T. Sanderson; Sarcognomy; Heinrich Schliemann; Second-race theory; Sheep-goat; Shiatsu; Snapping; Speculations in Science and Technology; Lewis Spence; Spontaneous human combustion; Squaring the circle; Joanna Stephens; Julius Streicher; Studievereniging voor Psychical Research or SVPR; William Summerlin; Sunspot cycles; Superorganisms; Sychronicity;
 * Tarot cards; Telekinesis; Alexander Thom; Thompsonism; Brinsley de Poer Trench; Tunguska event; Tychonian Society; Tychonic system;
 * Immanuel Velikovsky; Vitamin C; Wilburglen Voliva; Erich von Daniken; Vulcan (hypothetical planet) (planet);
 * Alfred Lothar Wegener; William Whiston; Wild Man of Borneo;
 * Yowie;
 * Zwaan rays;

Redirects

 * Aquatic ape theory of evolution; Auto-suggestion;
 * Bates Method; Bleeding statues; Brain washing;
 * Canals of Mars; Clever Hans phenomenon; Color, theory of;
 * The Descent of Woman; Diets;
 * ESP; Ether; Etheric body;
 * Fletcherism; Fortune telling;
 * Samuel Lee, Jr.; Samuel H. P. Lee;
 * Malicious animal magnetism; Midwife toad;
 * Newport Tower;
 * Project Alpha; Psychic metal bending;
 * Recovered memory syndrome; Right brain or Left brain; Role theory;
 * Scientific creationism; Skotography; Society for Researcyh on Rapport and Telekinesis;
 * Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation;
 * Wurzburg stones;
 * Zone therapy;

The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience
The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience, ed. Michael Shermer, ABC-Clio, 2002, ISBN 1-57607-653-9.

Major articles
2 pages or more
 * Alien abductions*; Alternative archaeology* - Pseudointerpretation; Ancient astronauts*; Anomalous psychological experiences*; Anthroposophy and anthroposophical medicine*; Astrology*; Attachment therapy*;
 * Ball lightning*; Biorhythms*;
 * Carlos Castaneda*; Clever Hans*; Cold reading*; Crop circles*; Cryptozoology* – Cryptids; Cults* – How cults recruit;
 * Dietary supplements*;
 * Earthquake prediction*; Electromagnetic fields and cell phones*;
 * Fairies, elves, pixies, and gnomes*; Faster-than-light travel*; Feng shui* – The Practice of Feng shui;
 * Uri Geller*;
 * Handwriting analysis and graphology*; Hypnosis*;
 * Ideomotor effect (the “ouija board” effect)*;
 * Magnetic therapy*; Mars face (extraterrestrial archaeology)*; Meditation*; Multiple personality disorder*;
 * Near-death experiences*;
 * Observer effects and observer bias* – Observer bias; Out-of-body experiences*;
 * Phrenology*; Piltdown Man*; Placebo effect*; Planetary alignments*; Polygraph and lie detection*; Prayer and healing*; Pseudoscience and science*;
 * Reincarnation*;
 * Shroud of Turin*; Societies for psychical research*; Spiritualism*; Stock market psuedoscience*; Subliminal perception and advertising*; Sun sign astrology*; Synchronicity*;
 * Therapeutic touch*; Tunguska*;
 * UFOs* – Historical overview; Kinds of UFO claims; Undeceiving ourselves*;
 * Witchcraft and magic*;

Significant articles
3 paragraphs to 2 pages
 * Alternative archaeology – The distinction between archaeology and pseudoarchaeology; Pseudopractice; Pseudointerpretation – Substitution of speculation for traditional archaeological evidence; Pseudointerpretation – Attempts to deploy the authority of nonhistorical sciences to establish historical hypotheses; Conclusion; Animal mutilations*; Anthroposophy and Anthroposophical medicine – Goethean science; Astrology – The Basics of astrology; References; Attachment therapy – Techniques of AT; Outcomes; Theoretical background; References;
 * Bermuda Triangle*;
 * Cryptozoology – What is cryptozoology?; Successes and new species; Is cryptozoology a science?; Cults – Exiting a cult; Helping victims cope;
 * Dietary supplements – Drugs versus dietary supplements; The Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act (DSHEA); Beware!; Beware! – A Weight lifter and creatine; Beware! – Celebrity power – the Iscador story; Studies to evaluate dietary supplements as drugs; Studies to evaluate dietary supplements as drugs – St. John's wort; Dowsing*;
 * Feng shui – The yin-yang school;
 * Hypnosis – The History of hypnosis; Hypnosis as entertainment; The Therapeutic use of hypnosis; Hypnosis and memory; The Nature of hypnosis;
 * Laundry balls*;
 * Magnetic therapy – Therapeutic claims; Research; Research – Fixed solid magnets; Research – Pulsating electromagnetic field therapy; Marketing magnetism; Meditation – Paranormal effects; Scientific research on meditation; Multiple personality disorder – References;
 * Near-death experiences – The State of the evidence on near-death experiences; Explanations for the near-death experience; Explanations for the near-death experience – Anoxia or hypercarbia; Explanations for the near-death experience – Life after death; Bibliography;
 * Observer effects and observer bias – The Double-blind experiment; Observer effects; Observer effects – Clever Hans; Facilitated communication; Observer bias – Patient or applicant?; Observer bias – Subliminal tapes; Out-of-body experiences – References;
 * Planetary alignments – Recent planetary alignments; How often do the planets align?; Planetary alignments and earthquakes;
 * Pseudoscience and science – References;
 * Séance*; Shamans and shamanism*; Sun sign astrology – Popularity; References;
 * Therapeutic touch – Practicum; Claims for healing; Etiology and Epistemology; History; Research; Eschatology; Bibliography; Tutankhamun's curse*;
 * UFOs – Logic of UFO arguments; Perception and psychology; Social psychological factors; Organizational involvement; Undeceiving ourselves – Deceiving ourselves; Effects of complexity; Judging numbers; Undeceiving ourselves; Now for the bad news; Bibliography;

Minor articles
1 or 2 paragraphs
 * Alien abductions – References; Alternative archaeology – Pseudointerpretation – Selected and/or distorted presentation of established knowledge; Pseudointerpretation – Reliance on supposed “anomalies”; Pseudointerpretation – Reinterpretation of scientific artifacts or entire sites without regard for their context; Pseudointerpretation – “Decoding” of traces of hidden history or advanced knowledge in ancient myths or iconography; Pseudointerpretation – Use of innuendo to undermine the authority of academic archaeology; Pseudointerpretation – Use of rhetorical tricks to mask a weak case; Pseudointerpretation – Use of legal, not scientific, standards of argument; References; Ancient astronauts – References; Animal mutilations – References; Anomalous psychological experiences – References; Anthroposophy and Anthroposophical medicine – Anthroposophical medicine; Biodynamic agriculture (biodynamics); References; Astrology – Early history; Recent history; Disagreement is normal; Popularity; Facts and feelings; Research findings; Hidden persuaders; The Mars effect; Is astrology helpful?; Astrology's dark side; What of the future?;
 * Ball lightning – References; Bermuda Triangle – References; Biorhythnms – References;
 * Carlos Castaneda – References; Clever Hans – References; Crop circles – References; Cryptozoology – Cryptids – Lake Monsters; Cryptids – Sea serpents; Cryptids – Bigfoot and similar creatures; Cryptids – Living dinosaurs; Cryptids – Giant octopus; Cryptids – Cryptophidian; Cryptids – Leguatia; Cryptozoological evidence; Successes and new species – Okapi; Successes and new species – Coelacanths; Successes and new species – Megamouth shark; Successes and new species – Giant gecko; Successes and new species – New beaked whales; Successes and new species – Saola and new muntjacs; Creationism and the paranormal in cryptozoology; Cults – References;
 * Dietary supplements – Drug interactions; Studies to evaluate dietary supplements as drugs – Ephedra; Studies to evaluate dietary supplements as drugs – Gingko bilboa; Studies to evaluate dietary supplements as drugs – Glucosamine; Integrating dietary supplements into health care; References; Dowsing – References;
 * Earthquake prediction – References; Electromagnetic fields and cell phones – Cell phones; References;
 * Fairies, elves, pixies, and gnomes – References; Faster-than-light travel – References; Feng shui – Chinese philosophy and naturalism; References;
 * Uri Geller – The spoon bend; Reproducing a drawing in a sealed envelope; Restarting “broken” watches; Testing by scientists; Personality; References;
 * Handwriting analysis and graphology – References; Hypnosis – References;
 * Ideomotor effect (the “ouija board” effect) – References;
 * Laundry balls – References;
 * Magnetic therapy – Conclusions; References; Mars face (extraterrestrial archaeology) – References; Meditation – Extraordinary effects; Ordinary effects; References;
 * Near-death experiences – Explanations for the near-death experience – Expectation; Explanations for the near-death experience – Administered drugs; Explanations for the near-death experience – Endorphins; Explanations for the near-death experience – Temporal lobe stimulation;
 * Observer effects and observer bias – Observer bias – N rays; References;
 * Phrenology – References; Piltdown Man – References; Placebo effect – References; Planetary alignments – Recent planetary alignments – February 5, 1962; Recent planetary alignments – March 10, 1982; Recent planetary alignments – May 5, 2000; References; Polygraph and lie detection – References; Prayer and healing – References;
 * Reincarnation – References;
 * Séance – References; Shamans and shamanism – References; Shroud of Turin – References; Societies for psychical research – References; Spiritualism – References; Stock market pseudoscience – References; Subliminal perception and advertising – References; Sun sign astrology – Sun sign columns; Delineations; Forecasts; The Precession argument; Validity of sun signs; Newspaper disclaimers; Sun signs and self-image; Popularity revisited; Synchronicity – References;
 * Tunguska – References; Tutankhamun's curse – References;
 * UFOs – Physical barriers; UFO culture; References; Undeceiving ourselves – Undeceiving ourselves – Barriers to change; Undeceiving ourselves – Incentives to change; Undeceiving ourselves – Beliefs versus facts; Undeceiving ourselves – Being critical; Undeceiving ourselves – No information?; Undeceiving ourselves – Open minds; Undeceiving ourselves – Data snooping; Undeceiving ourselves – Hostile skeptics; Undeceiving ourselves – Different agendas; Undeceiving ourselves – Crooked arguments; Undeceiving ourselves – Being informed;
 * Witchcraft and magic – References;

Subarticles

 * Alien abductions - References*;
 * Alternative archaeology – The distinction between archaeology and pseudoarchaeology**; Pseudopractice**; Pseudointerpretation***; Conclusion**; References*;
 * Alternative archaeology – Pseudointerpretation – Selected and/or distorted presentation of established knowledge*; Reliance on supposed “anomalies”*; Reinterpretation of scientific artifacts or entire sites without regard for their context*; “Decoding” of traces of hidden history or advanced knowledge in ancient myths or iconography*; Substitution of speculation for traditional archaeological evidence**; Attempts to deploy the authority of nonhistorical sciences to establish historical hypotheses**; Use of innuendo to undermine the authority of academic archaeology*; Use of rhetorical tricks to mask a weak case*; Use of legal, not scientific, standards of argument*;
 * Ancient astronauts – References*;
 * Animal mutilations – References*;
 * Anomalous psychological experiences – References*;
 * Anthroposophy and anthroposophical medicine – Anthroposophical medicine*; Biodynamic agriculture (biodynamics)*; Goethean science**; References*;
 * Astrology – Early history*; Recent history*; The Basics of astrology**; Disagreement is normal*; Popularity*; Facts and feelings*; Research findings*; Hidden persuaders*; The Mars effect*; Is astrology helpful?*; Astrology's dark side*; What of the future?*; References**;
 * Attachment therapy – Techniques of AT**; Outcomes**; Theoretical background**; References**;
 * Ball lightning – References*;
 * Bermuda Triangle – References*;
 * Biorhythnms – References*;
 * Carlos Castaneda – References*;
 * Clever Hans – References*;
 * Crop circles – References*;
 * Cryptozoology – What is cryptozoology?**; Cryptids***; Cryptozoological evidence*; Successes and new species**; Creationism and the paranormal in cryptozoology*; Is cryptozoology a science?**;
 * Cryptozoology – Cryptids – Lake Monsters*; Sea serpents*; Bigfoot and similar creatures*; Living dinosaurs*; Giant octopus*; Cryptophidian*; Leguatia*;
 * Cryptozoology – Successes and new species – Okapi*; Coelacanths*; Megamouth shark*; Giant gecko*; New beaked whales*; Saola and new muntjacs*;
 * Cults – How cults recruit***; Exiting a cult**; Helping victims cope**; References*;
 * Dietary supplements – Drugs versus dietary supplements**; The Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act (DSHEA)**; Beware!**; Drug interactions*; Studies to evaluate dietary supplements as drugs**; Integrating dietary supplements into health care*; References*;
 * Dietary supplements – Beware! - A Weight lifter and creatine**; Celebrity power – the Iscador story**;
 * Dietary supplements – Studies to evaluate dietary supplements as drugs – Ephedra*; Gingko bilboa*; Glucosamine*; St. John's wort**;
 * Dowsing – References*;
 * Earthquake prediction – References*;
 * Electromagnetic fields and cell phones – Cell phones*; References*;
 * Fairies, elves, pixies, and gnomes – References*;
 * Faster-than-light travel – References*;
 * Feng shui – Chinese philosophy and naturalism*; The yin-yang school**; The Practice of Feng shui***; References*;
 * Uri Geller – The spoon bend*; Reproducing a drawing in a sealed envelope*; Restarting “broken” watches*; Testing by scientists*; Personality*; References*;
 * Handwriting analysis and graphology – References*;
 * Hypnosis – The History of hypnosis**; Hypnosis as entertainment**; The Therapeutic use of hypnosis**; Hypnosis and memory**; The Nature of hypnosis**; References*;
 * Ideomotor effect (the “ouija board” effect) – References*;
 * Laundry balls – References*;
 * Magnetic therapy – Therapeutic claims**; Research**; Marketing magnetism**; Conclusions*; References*;
 * Magnetic therapy – Research – Fixed solid magnets**; Pulsating electromagnetic field therapy**;
 * Mars face (extraterrestrial archaeology) – References*;
 * Meditation – Paranormal effects**; Extraordinary effects*; Ordinary effects*; Scientific research on meditation**; References*;
 * Multiple personality disorder – References**;
 * Near-death experiences – The State of the evidence on near-death experiences**; Explanations for the near-death experience**; Bibliography**;
 * Near-death experience – Explanations for the near-death experience – Expectation*; Administered drugs*; Endorphins*; Anoxia or hypercarbia**; Temporal lobe stimulation*; Life after death**;
 * Observer effects and observer bias – The Double-blind experiment**; Observer effects**; Facilitated communication**; Observer bias***; References*;
 * Observer effects and observer bias – Observer effects – Clever Hans**;
 * Observer effects and observer bias – Observer bias – N rays*; Patient or applicant?**; Subliminal tapes**;
 * Out-of-body experiences – References**;
 * Phrenology – References*;
 * Piltdown Man – References*;
 * Placebo effect – References*;
 * Planetary alignments – Recent planetary alignments**; How often do the planets align?**; Planetary alignments and earthquakes**; References*;
 * Planetary alignments – Recent planetary alignments – February 5, 1962*; March 10, 1982*; May 5, 2000*;
 * Polygraph and lie detection – References*;
 * Prayer and healing – References*;
 * Pseudoscience and science – References**;
 * Reincarnation – References*;
 * Séance – References*;
 * Shamans and shamanism – References*;
 * Shroud of Turin – References*;
 * Societies for psychical research – References*;
 * Spiritualism – References*;
 * Stock market pseudoscience – References*;
 * Subliminal perception and advertising – References*;
 * Sun sign astrology – Sun sign columns*; Popularity**; Delineations*; Forecasts*; The Precession argument*; Validity of sun signs*; Newspaper disclaimers*; Sun signs and self-image*; Popularity revisited*; References**;
 * Synchronicity – References*;
 * Therapeutic touch – Practicum**; Claims for healing**; Etiology and Epistemology**; History**; Research**; Eschatology**; Bibliography**;
 * Tunguska – References*;
 * Tutankhamun's curse – References*;
 * UFOs – Historical overview***; Kinds of UFO claims***; Logic of UFO arguments**; Physical barriers*; Perception and psychology**; Social psychological factors**; Organizational involvement**; UFO culture*; References*;
 * Undeceiving ourselves – Deceiving ourselves**; Effects of complexity**; Judging numbers**; Undeceiving ourselves**; Now for the bad news**; Bibliography**;
 * Undeceiving ourselves – Undeceiving ourselves – Barriers to change*; Incentives to change*; Beliefs versus facts*; Being critical*; No information?*; Open minds*; Data snooping*; Hostile skeptics*; Different agendas*; Crooked arguments*; Being informed*;
 * Witchcraft and magic – References*;