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Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Part I: Assessing Claims of Paranormal Phenomena
Parapsychology and Belief
i.
Debunking, Neutrality, and Skepticism in Science
PAUL KURTZ 5
2.
The New Philosophy of Science and the "Paranormal"
STEPHEN TOULMIN 13
3.
Parapsychology's Past Eight Years: A Lack-of-Progress Report
JAMES E. ALCOCK 20
4.
Sense and Nonsense in Parapsychology
PIET HEIN HOEBENS 28
Expectation and Misperception
5.
On Coincidences
RUMA FALK 43
6.
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time
BARRY SINGER and VICTOR A. BENASSI 57
7.
Misperception, Folk Belief, and the Occult:
A Cognitive Guide to Understanding
JOHN W. CONNOR 65
8.
The Great Stone Face and Other Nonmysteries
MARTIN GARDNER 75
9.
Sir Oliver Lodge and the Spiritualists
STEVEN HOFFMASTER 79
Claims of Mind and Distance
10.
Outracing the Evidence: The Muddled "Mind Race"
RAY HYMAN 91
11.
Remote Viewing Revisited
DAVID F. MARKS 110
12.
Gerard Croiset: Investigation of the Mozart of "Psychic Sleuths"
PIET HEIN HOEBENS 122

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Publication Information: Book Title: Science Confronts the Paranormal. Contributors: Kendrick Frazier - editor. Publisher: Prometheus Books. Place of Publication: Amherst, NY. Publication Year: 1986. Page Number: v.
    
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