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href="bioharmonics.html">bioharmonics</a><br /> <a letter="B" href="biorhyth.html">biorhythms</a><br /> <a letter="B" href="blaylock.html">Blaylock, Russell</a><br /> <a letter="B" href="bloodtypediet.html">blood type diet</a><br /> <a letter="B" href="braingym.html">Brain Gym庐</a><br /> <a letter="B" href="braintyping.html">brain typing</a><br /> <a letter="B" href="buttar.html">Buttar, Rashid D.O.</a><br /> <a name="C">C</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="cellular.html">cellular memory</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="chemtrails.html">chemtrails</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="codepend.html">codependency</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="consegrity.html">Consegrity</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="cosmobiology.html">cosmobiology</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="cleverlinda.html">clever Linda phenomenon</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="cranial.html">craniometry</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="creation.html">creationism and creation science</a><br /> <a name="D">D</a><br /> <a letter="D" 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href="seedingtrial.html">seeding trial</a><br /> <a letter="S" href="sitchin.html">Zecharia Sitchin's <i>Earth Chronicles</i></a><br /> <a letter="S" href="slick50.html">Slick 50 & other oil additives</a><br /> <a letter="S" href="speedreading.html">speed reading</a><br /> <a letter="S" href="shc.html">spontaneous human combustion</a><br /> <a letter="S" href="sternberg.html">Sternberg, Richard</a><br /> <a letter="S" href="subliminal.html">subliminal advertising</a><br /> <a letter="S" href="superstition.html">superstition</a><br /> <a letter="S" href="jung.html">synchronicity</a><br /> <a name="T">T</a><br /> <a letter="T" href="takionic.html">tachyon and takionics</a><br /> <a letter="T" href="testimon.html">testimonials</a><br /> <a letter="T" href="toothfairyscience.html">Tooth Fairy science (Fairy Tale science)</a><br /> <a letter="T" href="tm.html">Transcendental Meditation (TM)</a><br /> <a name="U">U</a><br /> <a letter="U" href="unconscious.html">unconscious mind</a><br /> <a name="V">V</a><br /> <a letter="V" href="velikov.html">Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision</a> <br /> <a letter="V" href="voodooscience.html">voodoo science</a><br /> <a name="W">W</a><br /> <a letter="W" href="wallach.html">Joel D. Wallach, "The Mineral Doctor"</a><br /> <a name="Z">Z</a><br /> <a letter="Z" href="zermatism.html">Zermatism</a></p> <h3><b><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#808080">Recommended Reading</font></b></h3> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0393049639/roberttoddcarrolA/">Gardner, Martin. <i>Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, and Other Dubious Subjects</i> (W.W. Norton & Company, 2000).</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0486203948/roberttoddcarrolA/">Gardner, Martin. <i>Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science</i> (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1957),</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0345409469/roberttoddcarrolA/">Sagan, Carl. <i>The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark</i> (New York: Random House, 1995).</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0195143264/roberttoddcarrolA/">Shermer, Michael. <i>The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense</i> (Oxford University Press, 2001).</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0716730901/roberttoddcarrolA/">Shermer, Michael. <i>Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time</i> (W H Freeman & Co.: 1997)</a></font></p> <p></webContent> </p> </div> </div> <div class="right"> <div class="right_it"> <div class="search"> <form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/custom" target="_top"> <input type="hidden" name="domains" value="skepdic.com" /> <input type="text" name="q" maxlength="255" value="" size="20" /> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" /> <br /> <div class="search_2"> <input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="" /> Web     <input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="skepdic.com" checked="checked" /> Skepdic.com <br /> <img src="_images/logo_google.gif" alt="Google" width="48" height="19" /> </div> <input type="hidden" name="client" value="pub-3542920166946725" /> <input type="hidden" name="forid" value="1" /> <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" /> <input type="hidden" name="oe" value="ISO-8859-1" /> <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="GALT:#008000;GL:1;DIV:#336699;VLC:663399;AH:center;BGC:FFFFFF;LBGC:336699;ALC:0000FF;LC:0000FF;T:000000;GFNT:0000FF;GIMP:0000FF;FORID:1;" /> <input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en" /> </form> </div> <p align="right"><a href="http://skepdic.com/authorpage.html"><strong>Books by R. 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