COMMENT:Most skeptic books adopt an academic tone as claims are dissected and put to the test. Not this one. In <cite>Scams From The Great Beyond,</cite> Peter Huston writes a skeptics book for "the rest of us." The book is a how-to manual for hoaxing effects from levitating to UFOS -- each presented in P.T. Barnum style. The book is lavishly illustrated with tabloid clippings and photos demonstrating the techniques and their results. This is a good book to leave out for guests (credulous or otherwise) to flip through.
DATE:19990629
KEYWORDS:astrology newage psi skepticism UFO
MISC:208p., illustrated
PUBLISHER:Paladin Press
SUBMITADDR:sofkam@rpi.edu
SUBMITNAME:Mike Sofka
TITLE:Scams From The Great Beyond: How to Make Easy Money Off of ESP, Astrology, UFOs, Crop Circles, Cattle Mutilations, Alien Abductions, Atlantis, Channeling, and Other New Age Nonsense
