Suggested Auxiliary Reading
Good Science *
General Skepticism
- Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi
- Voodoo Science : The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert L. Park
- Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus by Martin Gardner
- The New Age: Notes of a Fringe-Watcher by Martin Gardner
- On the Wild Side by Martin Gardner
- Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher by Martin Gardner
- Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, and Other Dubious Subjects by Martin Gardner
- Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner
- The Borderlands of Science : Where Sense Meets Nonsense by Michael Shermer
- The Undergrowth of Science : Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty by Walter Graetzer
- Scientists Confront Creationism by Laurie R. Godfrey (Editor)
- Yes, We Have No Neutrons : An Eye-Opening Tour through the Twists and Turns of Bad Science by A. K. Dewdney
- Facing Up : Science and Its Cultural Adversaries by Steven Weinberg
- Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" by Philip C. Plait
- The Faith Healers by James Randi and Carl Sagan
- An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural : James Randi's Decidedly Skeptical Definitions of Alternate Realities by James Randi, Arthur C. Clarke (Introduction)
- Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction : Where Reality Ends and Illusion Begins by Charles M. Wynn and Arthur W. Wiggins
- How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
- Thinking Critically About New Age Ideas by W.D. Gray
- Becoming a Critical Thinker: A Guide for the New Millennium
by Robert Todd Carroll
- The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg
- The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins (response to Intelligent Design by William Dembski)
- Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism by Robert T. Pennock
- Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences
- The Creationists by Ronald L. Numbers
- Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism by by Philip Kitcher
- Pseudoscience and the Paranormal: A Critical Examination of the Evidence by Terence Hines
- How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich
- Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation by Nicholas Humphrey
- A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos
- Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
- The Truth About Uri Geller by James Randi
- The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer by James Randi
- Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives by Robert T. Pennock (Editor)
- The Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin
Read it online!
- The Museum of Hoaxes: A Collection of Pranks, Stunts, Deceptions, and Other Wonderful Stories Contrived for the Public from the Middle Ages to the New Millennium by Alex Boese
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay, Bernard M. Baruch
Read it online!
- QED - The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Phillips Feynman
- Round in Circles: Poltergeists, Pranksters, and the Secret History of the Cropwatchers by Jim Schnabel
- The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup by Philip J. Klass
- UFOs: The Public Deceived by Philip J. Klass
- UFO Abductions: A Dangerous Game by Philip J. Klass
- Kitzmiller et al. vs.
Dover Area School District et al. Memorandum Opinion 20 Dec 2005 by Judge John E. Jones III
- Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution by Douglas J. Futuyma
- The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould
- What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr
- Cosmos by Carl Sagan
- Tainted Truth: The Manipulation of Fact in America by Cynthia Crossen
- Seeing Through Statistics by Jessica M. Utts
- Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists by Joel Best
- More Damned Lies and Statistics by Joel Best
- Powers: Testing the Psychic and Supernatural by Danny Korem
- Defending Evolution: A Guide to the Evolution/Creation Controversy by Brian J. Alters, Sandra M. Alters, Alters, National Safety Council
- Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology by Kenneth L. Feder
- The Day the Universe Changed (Revised Edition) by James Burke
- Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of American History by Richard Shenkman
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
- Not So!: Popular Myths About America's Past from Columbus to Clinton by Paul F. Boller
- Calculated Risks: How To Know When Numbers Deceive You by Gerd Gigerenzer
- The Abyss of Time: Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity After the Sixteenth Century by Claude C. Albritton, Jr.
- Origin of Continents and Oceans by Alfred Wegener
- The Star of Bethlehem : The Legacy of the Magi by Michael R. Molnar
- The Complete Book of Extraterrestrial Encounters: The Ideas of Carl Sagan, Erich Von D'Aniken, Billy Graham, Carl Jung, John C. Lilly, John G. Fulle by Randall Fitzgerald
- The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved by Larry Kusche
- How Not to Test a Psychic: Ten Years of Remarkable Experiments With Renowned Clairvoyant Pavel Stepanek by Martin Gardner
- The Mythmaker's Magic: Behind the Illusion of "Creation Science" by Delos B. McKown
- The Secret Origins of the Bible by Tim Callahan
- Who Wrote the Gospels? by Randel Helms
- Who Wrote the New Testament? : The Making of the Christian Myth by Burton L. Mack
- The Historical Evidence for Jesus by G. A. Wells
- The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn by Diane Ravitch
- Dumbing Down Our Kids : Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, or Add by Charles J. Sykes
- Give Me a Break : How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media by John Stossel
- Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity : Get Out the Shovel--Why Everything You Know is Wrong by John Stossel
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
- Critical Thinking by Brooke Noel Moore and Richard Parker
- Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience by Georges Charpak, Henri Broch, Bart K. Holland (Translator)
- The Outer Edge: Classic
Investigations of the Paranormal edited by Joe Nickell, Barry Karr, and Tom Genoni
- Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Big Bang: The Origin Of The Universe by Simon Singh
- On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions
by Peter Douglas Ward
- Piltdown Man : The Secret Life of Charles Dawson & The World's Greatest Archaeological Hoax by Miles Russell
- Ghost Ship : The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew by Brian Hicks
- The Disappearance of Flight 19 by Larry Kusche
- Bigfoot Exposed : An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend by David J. Daegling
- Chiropractic: The Victim's Perspective by George Magner
- ESP Seers and Psychics by Milbourne Christopher (a magician)
- Psychic Sleuths: Esp and Sensational Cases by Joe Nickell (Editor)
- The Search for Psychic Power by C.E.M. Hansel
- A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology by Paul Kurtz (Editor)
- Physics and Psychics : The Search for a World Beyond the Senses by Victor J. Stenger
- Superstition and the Press by Curtis MacDougall
- Modern Apocrypha, Famous Biblical Hoaxes
by Edgar J. Goodspeed [The Beacon Press, Boston, 1956]
- The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney
- Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent
Design by Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross
-
Evolution vs. Creationism : An Introduction by Eugenie C. Scott
-
Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism
edited by Matt Young and Taner Edis
- Misquoting Jesus:
The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
- Bad Science : The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion by Gary Taubes
- Too Hot to Handle : The Race for Cold Fusion by Frank Close
- Cold Fusion : The Scientific Fiasco of the Century by John Huizenga
- Scientific Blunders : A Brief History of How Wrong Scientists Can Sometimes Be by Robert M. Youngson
- Summer for the Gods : The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
- Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile by Bishop John Shelby Spong
- Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism : A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture by by Bishop John Shelby Spong
- David and Solomon : In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman
- Chiropractic : the Greatest Hoax of the Century? by Ludmil Adam Chotkowski, Stephen Barrett (Editor)
- Abducted : How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens by Susan A. Clancy
- Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology edited by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, Jeffrey M. Lohr
- Rocks of Ages : Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould
- Science Friction : Where the Known Meets the Unknown by Michael Shermer
- Uncommon Sense : The Heretical Nature of Science by Alan Cromer
- Imaginary Weapons : A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld by Sharon Weinberger
- Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement by John Brockman (Editor)
- Astrology: True or False? : A Scientific Evaluation by Roger B. Culver, Philip A. Ianna
- Science and Unreason by Daisie Radner
- Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal
- Betrayers of the truth by William Broad and Nicholas Wade
- The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science by Horace Freeland Judson
- Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
- Worlds of Their Own: Insights into PseudoScience from Creationism to The End Times by Robert Schadewald
- An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore
- The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story by Greg Long
- Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design by Michael Shermer
- The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin
- Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory And the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit
- Evaluating Scientific Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Intellectual Due Process by Erica Beecher-Monas
-
The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy by William Arens
-
-
-
-
-
Some good science, some bad science *
Bad Science *
You can not report on the following books, but they are worth reading:
*
In the opinion of the instructors and other rational people.