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If you would like to contribute a review to the printed magazine, please email Paul Taylor at reviews at skeptic.org.uk and Jon Wainwright at jon at skeptic.org.uk. If you would like to contribute a book review directly to this section (although many reviews here first appeared in the printed magazine) please email Mark Williams at digest at skeptic.org.uk.

Book Reviews 

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

Wednesday, 18 November, 2009Thursday, 15 September, 2016 Admin 1760 Views

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

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The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Wednesday, 18 November, 2009Thursday, 15 September, 2016 Admin 1487 Views

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

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

Thursday, 26 March, 2009Tuesday, 10 July, 2018 Admin 1441 Views Gardner, literature, mathematics, Science

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

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

Thursday, 26 March, 2009Tuesday, 5 March, 2019 Paul Taylor 738 Views postmodernism, pseudoscience, Science

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,

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

Thursday, 26 March, 2009 Admin 844 Views

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

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How to Be a Good Atheist
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How to Be a Good Atheist

Sunday, 1 March, 2009 Admin 582 Views

How to Be a Good Atheistby Nick HardingOldcastle Books, £10.00, ISBN 978-1-8423-237-2 The title of Nick Harding’s book How to

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2012: The Year Of The Mayan Prophecy by Daniel Pinchbeck
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2012: The Year Of The Mayan Prophecy by Daniel Pinchbeck

Thursday, 26 March, 2009 Admin 669 Views

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

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The Satanic Scriptures
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The Satanic Scriptures

Sunday, 1 March, 2009 Admin 628 Views

The Satanic Scripturesby Peter H. GilmoreScapegoat Publishing, $15.95 (pb), ISBN 13:978-0-9764035-9-3 The content is not what the casual reader might

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