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Spooky science : debunking the pseudoscience of the afterlife / John Grant.

By: Grant, John, 1949- [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, NY : Sterling, an imprint of Sterling Publishing, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xviii, 245 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781454916543 (hardback); 1454916540 (hardback)Other title: Debunking the pseudoscience of the afterlifeSubject(s): Parapsychology and science | Future life | Science -- Philosophy -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 133.8 Summary: Skeptics of the supernatural will enjoy this humourous jaunt through the long history of scientific inquiry into paranormal and psychic phenomena. Life after death, spirit communication, the astral plane, reincarnation: on the relatively rare occasions when scientists have tried to apply their methods to the paranormal, they have often ended up embarrassed, fooled by obvious charlatans, deluded into making irrational and unsubstantiated claims, or frustrated in their attempt to find something that just is not there.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-234) and index.

Skeptics of the supernatural will enjoy this humourous jaunt through the long history of scientific inquiry into paranormal and psychic phenomena. Life after death, spirit communication, the astral plane, reincarnation: on the relatively rare occasions when scientists have tried to apply their methods to the paranormal, they have often ended up embarrassed, fooled by obvious charlatans, deluded into making irrational and unsubstantiated claims, or frustrated in their attempt to find something that just is not there.

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