If you just wanted to read one book skeptical of the paranormal, this would have to be it. Twenty experts, most of them scientists, take the time to study the evidence for various paranormal claims within their areas of expertise. Botanist Arthur Galston discusses the failures to replicate “plant consciousness” research published in the sensationalistic Secret Life of Plants. Astronomer Carl Sagan examines the Biblically-inspired catastrophist reinterpretation of solar system history proposed in Immanuel Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision. Surgeon William Nolen reports on his extensive investigation of psychic healing. The magician James “The Amazing” Randi demonstrates his duplications of psychic
“miracles.” The lyrical closing chapter by M.I.T. physicist Philip Morrison redirects the reader to the genuine fountains of wonder
