Society
When skepticism collides with human experience. The societal implications of scientific skepticism.
Star in the East
Star in the East: Krishnamurti, the Invention of a Messiah
by Roland Vernon
Constable, £20, ISBN 0094764808
What happens if you are trained from childhood to be...
Dreaming the Future
Dreaming the Future: The Fantastic Story of Prediction
by Clifford A Pickover
Prometheus Books, $20, ISBN 157392895X
I must confess that I do not like books that...
The Secret Scroll
The Secret Scroll
by Andrew Sinclair
Sinclair-Stevenson, UKP 24.99, ISBN 0953739864
The cover promises that this book will reveal the links between the Holy Land and Venice...
Test Your Science IQ
Test Your Science IQ
by Charles J Cazeau
Prometheus Books, $20, ISBN 1573928518
To get my moan about the title out of the way first: the IQ...
Deep Time
Deep Time: Cladistics, The Revolution in Evolution
by Henry Gee
Fourth Estate, ISBN 1857029879
The blurb makes the large claim that Gee “shows us how everything we...
The Gateway to Atlantis
Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for the Source of a Lost Civilisation
by Andrew Collins
Headline Book Publishing, £7.99, ISBN 0747261377
A search on Amazon.com brings up...
The UFOs That Never Were
The UFOs That Never Were
by Jenny Randles, Andy Roberts and David Clarke
London House, £16.99, ISBN 1902809351
This book is a surprise. The authors are well-known...
Alas, Poor Darwin
Alas, Poor Darwin: Escaping Evolutionary Psychology
by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose (Editors)
Jonathan Cape, £17.99, ISBN 0224060309
Here’s another volley in the so-called “Darwin Wars”, an...