Pseudoscience and the Paranormal

Terence Hines is a psychologist, and this book, published by Prometheus Books, an academic press specializing in skeptical and secular scholarship, critically examines a wide range of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims, including astrology and ESP, against the standards of scientific evidence. Its strength is systematic application of experimental and statistical method to claims that are often evaluated only anecdotally elsewhere, making it a useful counterweight source for claims about a practice's tested predictive or empirical validity specifically. Its limit is that, as a skeptical survey covering many different topics in one volume, its treatment of any single practice is necessarily briefer than a dedicated study of that one practice alone, and it should be read as a critical evaluation rather than a comprehensive account of the traditions it examines.