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Debunked!: ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience » (New Edition)

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Authors: Georges Charpak, Henri Broch, Bart K. Holland
ISBN-13: 9780801878671, ISBN-10: 0801878675
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak is a physicist at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva and winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in physics. Henri Broch teaches physics and zetetics, the scientific investigation of paranormal phenomena, at the University of Nice—Sophia Antipolis.

Book Synopsis

"Short and highly readable. It tells good stories about human foolishness masquerading as science. It offers useful assistance to citizens trying to tell the difference between sense and nonsense... Charpak and Broch have done a fine job, sweeping out the money-changers from the temple of science and exposing their tricks." -- New York Review of Books

"One of those books I wish I'd written." -- James Randi, Physics Today

Table of Contents

Translator's preface
Prologue : sorcerers and scientists
Ch. 1The first steps in the initiation1
Ch. 2Amazing coincidences45
Ch. 3Let's play detective71
Ch. 4The right to dreams and clarity113
Ch. 5A new millennium dawns123
AppHow to calculate probabilities133

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