Suggested Auxiliary Reading
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Good Science *
Highly Recommended
- Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi
- Voodoo Science : The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert L. Park
- Misquoting Jesus:
The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
- Kitzmiller et al. vs.
Dover Area School District et al. Memorandum Opinion 20 Dec 2005 by Judge John E. Jones III
- The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved by Larry Kusche
- Imaginary Weapons : A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld by Sharon Weinberger
- The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney
- Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts
by the Editors of Popular Mechanics (Author), John McCain (Foreword), David Dunbar (Editor), Brad Reagan (Editor)
FREE!!!
- 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! Here is another
online version.
- Science, Evolution, and Creationism by Nas Steering Comte on Science & Creation
- Kitzmiller et al. vs.
Dover Area School District et al. Memorandum Opinion 20 Dec 2005 by Judge John E. Jones III
- Reading,Writing & Religion: Teaching the Bible in Texas Public Schools (Updated Edition) by Professor Mark A. Chancey
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay, Bernard M. Baruch
Read it online!
Evolution
- Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
- Scientists Confront Creationism by Laurie R. Godfrey (Editor)
- 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, Evolution, and Creationism by Nas Steering Comte on Science & Creation
- 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
- 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! Here is another
online version.
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Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated by Steve Jones
- 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
- Defending Evolution: A Guide to the Evolution/Creation Controversy by Brian J. Alters, Sandra M. Alters, Alters, National Safety Council
- The Mythmaker's Magic: Behind the Illusion of "Creation Science" by Delos B. McKown
- Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent
Design by Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross
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Evolution vs. Creationism : An Introduction by Eugenie C. Scott
- Not in Our Classrooms:
Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools by Eugenie C. Scott and Glenn Branch
- The Top 10 Myths About Evolution
by Cameron M. Smith and Charles Sullivan
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Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism
edited by Matt Young and Taner Edis
- Summer for the Gods :
The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
- Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement by John Brockman (Editor)
- Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design by Michael Shermer
- Science and Earth History: The Evolution/Creation Controversy by Arthur N. Strahler
- The Abyss of Time: Unraveling the Mystery of the Earth's Age
by by Claude C. Albritton, Jr.
- Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution by Edward J. Larson
- The Dover Books Cometh from the Panda's Thumb
- Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul by Edward Humes
- 40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin®, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania by Matthew Chapman (the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin!)
- The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, PA by Gordy Slack
- The Devil in Dover: A Journalist's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America by Lauri Lebo
- God on Trial: Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields by Peter Irons
- The Panda's Black Box: Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy Nathaniel C. Comfort (Editor)
Religion
- Misquoting Jesus:
The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
- Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman
- Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman
- Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine by Bart D. Ehrman
- Reading,Writing & Religion: Teaching the Bible in Texas Public Schools (Updated Edition) by Professor Mark A. Chancey
- The Resurrection: History and Myth by Geza Vermes
- The Faith Healers by James Randi
- Who Wrote the New Testament? : The Making of the Christian Myth by Burton L. Mack
- 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
- Modern Apocrypha, Famous Biblical Hoaxes
by Edgar J. Goodspeed [The Beacon Press, Boston, 1956]
- Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church by Simon G. Southerton
- A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White
- The Counter-Creationism Handbook by Mark Isaak
- Storms over Genesis: Biblical Battleground in America's Wars of Religion by William H. Jennings
Shroud of Turin
- Inquest On The Shroud Of Turin : Latest Scientific Findings by Joe Nickell
- Judgment Day for the Shroud of Turin by Walter McCrone
- Relic, Icon or Hoax?: Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud by by Harry E Gove
UFOs / Roswell
- 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
- Abducted : How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens by Susan A. Clancy
- The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know by Kal K Korff
- THE UFO CRASH AT ROSWELL: THE GENESIS OF A MODERN MYTH
by Benson Saler, Charles A. Ziegler, and Charles B. Moore
- The Roswell Report: Case Closed by Captain James McAndrew, USAF
- Roswell : Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe
by Karl T. Pflock
Alternative Medicine
- Chiropractic: The Victim's Perspective by George Magner
- Chiropractic : the Greatest Hoax of the Century?
by Ludmil Adam Chotkowski, Stephen Barrett (Editor)
- Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine by R. Barker Bausell
- Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism by Roy Richard Grinker
- Health Schemes, Scams and Frauds
by Stephen Barrett and Consumer Reports Books
- The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America
by Steven Barrett and William T. Jarvis
- A Consumers Guide to Alternative Medicine:
A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith-Healing, and Other Unconventional Treatments
by by Kurt Butler (Author) and Stephen Barrett (Editor)
Cold Fusion
- 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
Math / Statistics / Economics
- How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
- A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos
- Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
- 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
- Calculated Risks: How To Know When Numbers Deceive You by Gerd Gigerenzer
- Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
History / Archaeology / Anthropology
- Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology by Kenneth L. Feder
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The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy by William Arens
- 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
- 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
Eyewitness Testimony
- On the Witness: Essays on Psychology and Crime by Hugo Munsterberg, 1908/1923
- The Science of Judicial Proof, As Given By Logic, Psychology, and General Experience, and Illustrated in Judicial Trials by John Henry Wigmore, 1937
- Convicting the Innocent: Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice by Edwin M. Borchard, Garden City 1932
- Eyewitness Identification in Criminal Cases by Patrick Wall, Charles Thomas 1965
- Eyewitness Testimony by Elizabeth F. Loftus (Harvard 1979)
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
- 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
- An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural : James Randi's Decidedly Skeptical Definitions of Alternate Realities by James Randi
- Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction : Where Reality Ends and Illusion Begins by Charles M. Wynn and Arthur W. Wiggins
- 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
- 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
- The Truth About Uri Geller by James Randi
- The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer by James Randi
- 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
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- 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
- Cosmos by Carl Sagan
- Powers: Testing the Psychic and Supernatural by Danny Korem
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney
- Scientific Blunders : A Brief History of How Wrong Scientists Can Sometimes Be by Robert M. Youngson
- 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
- 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
- Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend by David J. Daegling
- 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
- Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi
- Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram
- The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
- Lysenko and the Tragedy of Soviet Science by Valery N. Soyfer
- The Lysenko Affair by David Joravsky
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Mortal Combat: AIDS Denialism and the Struggle for Antiretrovirals in South Africa by Nicoli Nattrass
- Why Science? by James Trefil
- Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
- Science, Nonscience, and Nonsense: Approaching Environmental Literacy by Michael Zimmerman
- Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend by Jeffrey S. Victor
- The Write Stuff: Evaluations of Graphology-The Study of Handwriting Analysis by Barry L. Beyerstein and Dale F. Beyerstein
- Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts
by the Editors of Popular Mechanics (Author), John McCain (Foreword), David Dunbar (Editor), Brad Reagan (Editor)
- The 9/11 Commission Report
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Some good science, some bad science *
Bad Science *
You can not report on the following books, but they are worth reading:
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In the opinion of the instructors and other rational people.