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
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Book Reviews
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.
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
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Jinn from Hyperspace: And Other Scribblings – Both Serious and Whimsical by Martin Gardner
Prometheus Books, £17.50 (hb), ISBN-10: 1591025656Another Gardner book is always good news, for both sceptics and aficionados of science and
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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,
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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: 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
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
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
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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