AUTHOR:Martin Gardner
CATEGORY:general
COMMENT:A collection of essays, mostly reproductions of <a href="/bib/89"><cite>Skeptical Inquirer</cite></a> columns. Criticisms of psychic claims are most prominent, particularly where more blatantly strange psi claims are concerned. Other themes are bizarre New Age facets, fundamentalist religion, and glances at personalities such as <a href="/bibq/hubbard">L. Ron Hubbard</a>, Freud, G. McReady Price, Shirley MacLaine, Ray Palmer and so on. Among the essays difficult to categorize are those on: <a href="/bib/485">The Mars Face</a>, Sheldrake's morphogenetic fields, perpetual motion (fairly detailed), 666, the Shaver mystery and UFO's, and weird psychic astronomy claims. Enjoyable, if not too deep, and at times too hostile.
DATE:19990927
KEYWORDS:biorhythms conjuring creationism fraud free-energy newage psi psi:history quackery skepticism UFO
MISC:273p., illustrated
PUBLISHER:Prometheus
SUBMITADDR:bibliographer@csicop.org
SUBMITNAME:Taner Edis
TITLE:The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher
URL:http://www.prometheusbooks.com/site/catalog/sci66.html
YEAR:1988