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  1. AUTHOR:David Marks
  2. CATEGORY:psi
  3. COMMENT:An updated edition of a classic critique of parapsychology.  The bulk
  4. COMMENT:of the book carries over from the first edition, examining psi based
  5. COMMENT:on two prominent examples of the 70's: the Targ-Puthoff "remote
  6. COMMENT:viewing" experiments, and Uri Geller. It explains the fatal flaws in
  7. COMMENT:both in some detail.  The new material is just as interesting,
  8. COMMENT:however, as Marks also severely criticizes the Star Gate remote
  9. COMMENT:viewing experiments which ran into the mid-90's, the ganzfeld
  10. COMMENT:experiments, and some of the recent psychic claims made by Rupert
  11. COMMENT:Sheldrake.   So the book ends up surveying a quarter century of
  12. COMMENT:parapsychology, reaching some sharply skeptical conclusions.  Its
  13. COMMENT:concluding chapters on the psychology of paranormal belief are also
  14. COMMENT:quite valuable, containing clear explanations of common misjudgments
  15. COMMENT:of probability, in particular fallacies of subjective validation.
  16. DATE:20011215
  17. KEYWORDS:fraud psi psi:methodology psychology skepticism
  18. MISC:336p., plates.  Original coauthor Richard Kammann
  19. PUBLISHER:Prometheus
  20. SUBMITADDR:bibliographer@csicop.org
  21. SUBMITNAME:Taner Edis
  22. TITLE:The Psychology Of The Psychic
  23. URL:http://www.prometheusbooks.com/site/catalog/sci70.html
  24. YEAR:2000 (2nd edition, 1980 original)
  25.