Suggested Auxiliary Reading

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Skeptical titles are available from Prometheus Books

Good Science *

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• Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine by Paul A. Offit
• Homeopathy and its Kindred Delusions by Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Randi (Foreword), Harriet A. Hall (Introduction)
• The AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back by Nicoli Nattrass
• Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth by Bart Ehrman
• Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation by Elaine Pagels
• God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion by Victor J. Stenger
• Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore by Benjamin Radford
• Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There by Richard Wiseman
• Informing the News by Thomas E. Patterson
  
  Highly Recommended
  
• The Horse That Won't Go Away by Thomas Heinzen, Scott Lilienfeld, and Susan A. Nolan
• The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists by Martin J. S. Rudwick
  other books by Martin J. S. Rudwick
• Mendel in the kitchen: a scientist's view of genetically modified foods by Nina Vsevolod Fedoroff, Nancy Marie Brown
• The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
• Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi
• Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century by Burton Richter (Nobel Prize in Physics)
• Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science by Robert L. Park
• Voodoo Science : The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert L. Park
• Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are by Bart D. Ehrman
• Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them) by Bart D. Ehrman
• Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
• The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
• Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
• Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters by Donald R. Prothero
• Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
• Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
• Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul by Edward Humes
• Kitzmiller et al. vs. Dover Area School District et al. Memorandum Opinion 20 Dec 2005 by Judge John E. Jones III (Intelligent Design)
• The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved by Larry Kusche
• Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
• 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)
• Future Babble: Why Pundits are Hedgehogs and Foxes Know Best by Dan Gardner
• How to Think About Weird Things : Critical Thinking for a New Age by Theodore Schick and Lewis Vaughn
  
  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 National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine
  • Read it online for free! or download a free PDF copy after registering
• Kitzmiller et al. vs. Dover Area School District et al. Memorandum Opinion 20 Dec 2005 by Judge John E. Jones III (Intelligent Design)
• Reading,Writing & Religion II: Texas Public School Bible Courses in 2011-12 by Professor Mark A. Chancey
• Reading,Writing & Religion: Teaching the Bible in Texas Public Schools (Updated Edition) by Professor Mark A. Chancey
• Liars for Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History by Chris Rodda
• Supreme Court of South Australia Justice John Sulan's decision (PDF format); (MSWord format) in R v PARENZEE (HIV/AIDS Denial)
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay, Bernard M. Baruch Read it online!
• Report of the Independent Review Panel by Dick Thornburgh and Louis D. Boccardi (about the Killian memos) On the September 8, 2004 60 Minutes Wednesday Segment "For the Record" Concerning President Bush's Texas Air National Guard Service
  
  Global Warming
  
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
• Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity by James Hansen
• Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate by Stephen H. Schneider
• Climate Change Science and Policy by Stephen H. Schneider
• Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming by Chris Mooney
• Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming by Mark Bowen
• Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming by James Hoggan
• A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack
• Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century by Burton Richter (Nobel Prize in Physics)
  
  Evolution
  
• The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
• Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design and the Easter Bunny by Barrett Brown and Jon P. Alston
• Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
• The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
• 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
  • Read it online for free! or download a free PDF copy after registering
• Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences
• The Creationists by Ronald L. Numbers
• Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism 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.
• The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
• 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 (Intelligent Design)
• Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution by Douglas J. Futuyma
• The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould
  • Other books by Stephen Jay Gould - read any or all
• 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
• 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
• 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 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)
• Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul by Kenneth R. Miller
• Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution by Kenneth R. Miller
• Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, Richard York
• Mr. Belloc Objects to 'Outline of History' by H.G. Wells
  Soon to be re-released with comments from Martin Gardner
  
  Religion
  
• The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
• Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them) by Bart D. Ehrman
• 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
• God in the Classroom: Religion and America's Public Schools by R. Murray Thomas
• 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
• Scientology: More than a cult? by L. Kin
• Scientology: A Handbook For Use by L. Kin
• A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed by Jon Atack
• Resurrection: Myth or Reality? by Bishop John Shelby Spong
• 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 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
• When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law by Shawn Francis Peters
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
  
  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 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
  
  Medicine / Alternative Medicine
  
• Natural Causes: Death, Lies and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry by Dan Hurley
• 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
• Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
• Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism by Roy Richard Grinker
• Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul A. Offit
• Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All by Paul A. Offit
• The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth Mnookin
• 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 Kurt Butler (Author) and Stephen Barrett (Editor)
• Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine by John Abramson
• Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
• The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It by Marcia Angell
  
  Hoaxes and Deception
  
• 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
• A Treasury of Deception by Michael Farquhar
• Literary Hoaxes by Melissa Katsoulis
  
  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
• Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception by Charles Seife
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• 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
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  History / Archaeology / Anthropology
  
• Selling Hitler by Robert Harris
• Great Forgers and Famous Fakes: The Manuscript Forgers of America and How They Duped the Experts by Charles Hamilton
• Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History Vol. 1 by Chris Rodda
• Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology by Kenneth L. Feder
• 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
  
  Piltdown Man (Hoax)
  
• The Piltdown Men by Ronald Millar
• The Piltdown Forgery by J. S. Weiner
• The Piltdown Inquest by Charles Blinderman
• Piltdown : a scientific forgery by Frank Spencer
• Unraveling Piltdown:: The Science Fraud of the Century and Its Solution by John Evangelist Walsh
• Piltdown Man : The Secret Life of Charles Dawson & The World's Greatest Archaeological Hoax by Miles Russell
  
  Eyewitness Testimony / Psychology
  
• Mistaken Identification: The Eyewitness, Psychology and the Law by Brian L. Cutler and Steven D. Penrod
• 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)
• On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not by Robert Burton
• Mistakes were made, but not by me by Tavris and Aronson
  
  Propaganda
  
• Propaganda by Edward Bernays
• Falsehood in Wartime by Arthur Ponsonby
• Propaganda Techniques in the World War by Harold D. Lasswell
• The Black Game by Ellic Howe (hard to find)
• Black Boomerang by Sefton Delmer (expensive)
• How to Understand Propaganda by Alfred M. Lee
• Age of Propaganda by Anthony Pratkanis & Elliott Aronson
• Propaganda for War by H. C. Peterson
  
  General Skepticism
  
• unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson
• Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal
• Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
• Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? by Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman
• Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi
• Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Michael Specter
• Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health by David Michaels
• Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science by Robert L. Park
• Voodoo Science : The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert L. Park
• False Impressions by Thomas Hoving (about art fraud)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith Groups That Twist Science for Their Own Gain by Dan Agin, Ph.D.
• Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration by Seth Shulman
• 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
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
• 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
• Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map by Kirsten A. Seaver
• 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
• Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
• 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
• Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy by Seth C. Kalichman
• 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
• Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery by John Waller
• Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms by Robert M. Price
• Adventures in Paranormal Investigation by Joe Nickell
• Counterknowledge: How We Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History by Damian Thompson
• Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition by Stuart A. Vyse
• unSpun: Finding facts in a World of Disinformation by Jackson and Jamieson

Some good science, some bad science *

• Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares & Scams by Steven J. Milloy
• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene

Bad Science *

(Un)Intelligent Design / Creationism (same thing, two names)

• The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism by Michael J. Behe
• Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe
• Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology by William Dembski
• The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions About Intelligent Design by William A. Dembski
• Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong by Jonathan Wells
• The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards
• Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds by Phillip E. Johnson
• Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson
• Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological Origins by Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon - this was the "textbook" suggested as an Intelligent Design reference for ninth graders in the Dover, PA, court case. See also the Wikipedia entry.
• The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications by John C. Whitcomb, Jr. and Henry Madison Morris
• Scientific Creationism by Henry M. Morris
• Pretty much anything written by Henry M. Morris
  
  UFOs / Roswell
  
• The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore
• UFO Crash at Roswell by Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt
• Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a UFO by Stanton T. Friedman and Don Berliner
• The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell by Kevin D.Randle and Donald R. Schmitt
• Captured! - the Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World's First Documented Alien Abduction by Stanton T. Friedman
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  AIDS Denial
  
• Inventing the AIDS Virus by Peter Deusberg
• Infectious AIDS: Have We Been Misled?: The Fallacy of the HIV-AIDS Connection by Peter Duesberg
• AIDS: The Good News Is HIV Doesn't Cause It by Peter H. Duesberg and John Yiamouyiannis
• Science Sold Out: Does HIV Really Cause AIDS? by Rebecca Culshaw (Yes, it really does!)
• What if everything you thought you knew about AIDS was wrong? by Christine Maggiore (What if you killed your own daughter, Christine?)
  
  Alternative Medicine
  
• Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy by David Kirby
  
  Climate Denial
  
• The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania by Steve Goreham (Thanks for sending us the free book, Fred Singer.)
  • Here is a review.
  
  
  Other Nonsense
  
• Chariots of the Gods? by Erich Von Daniken
• Crystal Enlightenment: The Transforming Properties of Crystals and Healing Stones by Katrina Raphaell
• The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin
• Bible Code II: The Countdown by Michael Drosnin
• Organon of the Medical Art by Samuel Hahnemann - The Homeopathy "Bible"
• Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz
• Without a Trace: New Information from the Triangle by Charles Frambach Berlitz
• The Ark of Noah by David Fasold
• The Afterlife Experiments by Gary Schwartz
• Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About by Kevin Trudeau
  See also Why You Shouldn't Buy Kevin Trudeau's "Natural Cures" Book from Quackwatch.org
• Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter (Don't waste your money on a copy of this book, but if you happen to find one in a trash bin somewhere...)
  • Book review from Media Matters
  • Book review from Skeptical Inquirer (March-April 2007): p48(3)
  • "The extremist author Ann Coulter has taken up Discovery [Institute]'s cause in her fact-challenged, hate-filled best seller, Godless, which foists on a credulous readership one distortion after another about evolution, intelligent design, Dover, and Judge Jones's ruling. Coulter has the ability to infulence millions of Americans; she could have educated her readers about evolution, about the separation of church and state, about ways that science and religion can coexist. Instead, she wrote a work laden with falsehood that makes Dr. Dino sound positively scholarly, and she did it with the help of the intelligent design movement's intellectual leader, William Dembski."
    --Edward Humes in Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
• Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science by Jeff Meldrum. See the review from Skeptical Inquirer magazine.
• Galileo Was Wrong by Robert A. Sungenis and Robert J. Bennett
• A Geocentricity Primer/The Geocentric Bible 3 [Two Books in One] by Gerandus D Bouw and Gordon Bane
  • Order it for free!

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You can not report on the following books, but they are worth reading:

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay
• The Darwin Awards I by Wendy Northcutt
• The Darwin Awards II by Wendy Northcutt
• The Darwin Awards III by Wendy Northcutt
• The IgNobel Prizes by Marc Abrahams
• The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson
• List of banned books from Wikipedia - read as many as you can and don't let ANYBODY tell you what you can't read.

* In the opinion of the instructors and other rational people.

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