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Paul Taylor is our Reviews Editors. Paul is a professional musician. When he is not on the road with various jazz and Latin bands, he is developing and promoting two of his own inventions: The Blowpipes Trombone Trio, and Trombone Poetry, a solo project.

The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Oxford University Press, £13.99, ISBN 0195313682 Snake Oil Science: the Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine By R. Barker Bausell Reviewed by Ray Ward Bausell covers the rise...

The Tiger That Isn’t: Seeing Through a World of Numbers

Profile Books, £7.99 (pb), ISBN 1846681111 The Tiger That Isn’t: Seeing Through a World of Numbers by Michael Blastland and Andrew DilnotReviewed by Michael HuttonOur lives...

Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal

OUP,  £20.00, ISBN 978-0-19-923920-7 A decade ago, Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont published Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers’ Abuse of Science, a book written to provide...

Jinn from Hyperspace: And Other Scribblings – Both Serious and Whimsical by Martin Gardner

Prometheus Books, ISBN-10: 1591025656 Another Gardner book is always good news, for both skeptics and aficionados of science and mathematics. Over the last fifty years,...

Counter-Knowledge: How we Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History by Damian Thompson

Atlantic Books,  £7.99 (pb), ISBN 10: 1843546760 This book is an impressive new addition to the now well-established genre of sceptical works critiquing largely irrational...

The Paperback Apocalypse: how the Christian Church was left behind by Robert M. Price

Prometheus Books, £12.99 (pb), ISBN-10: 1591025834 This book could probably only have been published in America, though it may not be as widely read there...

2012: The Year Of The Mayan Prophecy by Daniel Pinchbeck

Piatkus, £9.99 (pb), ISBN-10: 0749927607 Many non-mainstream thinkers are currently focusing on the now familiar fact that the 5000-year Mayan “Long Count” reaches an endpoint...

Occult London by Merlin Coverley

Pocket Essentials, £9.99  (hb), ISBN 978-1-904048-88-6 It’s hard to see the purpose of this book, which offers no new insights or information, just a series...
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