Reading for Skeptics

Fads & Fallacies in the Name of Science — Martin Gardner
Errors and Eccentricity in Human Belief — Joseph Jastrow’
ESP, Seers & Psychics — Christopher Milbourn
Mediums, Mystics & the Occult — Christopher Milbourne
Flim Flam! — James Randi
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural — James Randi
The Faith Healers — James Randi
The Demon-Haunted World — Carl Sagan
Broca’s Brain — Carl Sagan
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time — Michael Shermer
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds — Charles MacKay
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design — Richard Dawkins
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters — Donald Prothero
Why Evolution Is True — Jerry A. Coyne
The Greatest Show on Earth: the Evidence for Evolution — Richard Dawkins
How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life — Thomas Gilovich
Conjuring Science: Scientific Symbols and Cultural Meanings in American Life — Christopher P. Toumey
Voodoo Science: the Road from Foolishness to Fraud — Robert L. Park
Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking 2nd edition — Leonard Zusne and Warren Jones
Don’t Get Taken! – Bunco and Bunkum Exposed – How to Protect Yourself — Robert A. Steiner
Pseudoscience and the Paranormal 2nd ed. — Terence Hines
Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition — Stuart A. Vyse
The Psychic Mafia — Lamar M. Keene
“Crazy” Therapies — Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich
Innumeracy — John Allen Paulos
The Elusive Quarry : A Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research — Ray Hyman
The Search for Psychic Power: Esp & Parapsychology Revisited — C.E.M. Hansel
The Psychology of the Psychic — David F. Marks.
Multiple Identities & False Memories : A Sociocognitive Perspective — Nicholas P. Spanos
Hen’s Teeth and Horses Toes is one of several collections of essays written for his column in Natural History magazine. This collection contains the essential “Evolution as Fact and Theory.”
From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin’s Four Great Books (Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals) — Charles Darwin, ed. E. O. Wilson.
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters — Donald R. Prothero
The Ancient Engineers — L. Sprague De Camp
The New Skepticism – Inquiry and Reliable Knowledge — Paul Kurtz
House of Cards – Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth — Robyn M. Dawes
The Hundredth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal, ed. Kendrick Frazier
How to Think About Weird Things 3rd ed. — Theodore Schick Jr. and Lewis Vaughn
Looking For A Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions and Healing Cures — Joe Nickell
Science Meets Alternative Medicine: What the Evidence Says About Unconventional Treatments ; edited by Wallace Sampson and Lewis Vaughn.
Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology, 5th edition, — Kenneth L. Feder
Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing “Hoax” — Philip C. Plait
The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup — Philip J. Klass
The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading— Ian Rowland
Don’t Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking — Thomas E. Kida
A Consumers Guide to Alternative Medicine : A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith-Healing, and Other Unconventional Treatments; edited by Stephen Barrett and Kurt Butler.
Nibbling on Einstein’s Brain — Diane Swanson
Turn it Loose – The Scientist in Absolutely Everybody — Diane Swanson
Crimes Against Logic – Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders — Jamie Whyte
Parapsychology: Science or Magic — James E. Alcock
The Psychology of Transcendence — Andrew Neher
The Psychology of Anomalous Experience: A Cognitive Approach — Graham Reed
Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials : The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety — Wendy. Kaminer
“Alternative” Healthcare: A Comprehensive Guide — Jack Raso
Illusions and Delusions of the Supernatural and the Occult; the Psychology of the Occult — Donovan Hilton Rawcliffe
The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience — Michael Shermer. editor
The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal — Gordon Stein, editor