50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True Part 20

Humes, Edward. Monkey Girl: Education, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

Jack, Albert. Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs: The World's Most Puzzling Mysteries Solved. New York: Random House, 2007.

Jayawardhana, Ray. Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.

Jordan, Michael. Encyclopedia of G.o.ds. London: Kyle Cathie, 2002.

Kaku, Michio. Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100. New York: Doubleday, 2011.

Kaminer, Wendy. Sleeping with Extra-terrestrials. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999.

Kaufman, Marc. First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life beyond Earth. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011.

Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Penguin, 2005.

Kelly, Lynne. The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal. New York: Avalon, 2004.

Kida, Thomas. Don't Believe Everything You Think. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006.

Kla.s.s, Philip J. The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997.

Kurtz, Paul. Affirmations: Joyful and Creative Exuberance. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004.

--. The New Skepticism: Inquiry and Reliable Knowledge. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1992.

--, ed. Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003.

--, ed. Skeptical Odysseys. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2001.

--. The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991.

Kurzweil, Ray. The Singularity Is Near. New York: Penguin, 2006.

Kusche, Larry. The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1995.

Leeming, David. A Dictionary of Creation Myths. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Lewis, James R. Doomsday Prophecies: A Complete Guide to the End of the World. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000.

Lipstadt, Deborah. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing a.s.sault on Truth and Memory. New York: Plume, 1994.

Long, Greg. The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004.

Loxton, Daniel. Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be. Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press, 2010.

Macknic, Stephen L., and Susana Martinez-Conde. Sleights of Mind. New York: Henry Holt, 2010.

Margulis, Lynn, and Dorian Sagan. Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Marks, Jonathan. Why I Am Not a Scientist. Berkley: University of California Press, 2009.

Mayr, Ernst. What Evolution Is. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002.

McAndrew, James. Roswell Report: Case Closed. Texas: Books Express Publis.h.i.+ng, 2011.

McGuire, Bill. A Guide to the End of the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Medina, John. Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School. Seattle, WA: Pear Press, 2008.

Mnookin, Seth. The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011.

Montagu, Ashley. Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 1997.

Mooney, Chris, and Sheril Kirshenbaum. Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future. New York: Basic Books, 2009.

Murdoch, Stephen. IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007.

National Academy of Sciences. Science, Evolution, and Creationism. Was.h.i.+ngton, DC: National Academies Press, 2008.

Nelson, Kevin. The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain. New York: Dutton, 2011.

Nickell, Joe. Adventures in Paranormal Investigation. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007.

--. Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions & Healing Cures. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1999.

--. The Mystery Chronicles: More Real-Life X-Files. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.

--. Psychic Sleuths: ESP and Sensational Cases. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1994.

--. Relics of the Christ. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007.

--. Tracking the Man-Beasts: Sasquatch, Vampires, Zombies, and More. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2011.

Nisbett, Richard E. Intelligence and How to Get It. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009.

Offit, Paul A. Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.

--. Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All. New York: Basic Books, 2010.

Offit, Paul A., and Charlotte A. Moser. Vaccines and Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Olson, Steve. Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins, New York: Mariner Books, 2003.

Palmer, Douglas. Origins: Human Evolution Revealed. New York: Mitch.e.l.l Beazley, 2010.

Park, Robert. Voodoo Science: The Road from Fraud to Foolishness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Pigliucci, Ma.s.simo. Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer a.s.sociates, 2002.

--. Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Piper, Don. 90 Minutes in Heaven. Grand Rapids, MI: Revell, 2004.

Plait, Philip. Bad Astronomy. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002.

--. Death from the Skies! New York: Penguin Books, 2008.

Prothero, Stephen. G.o.d Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World-And Why Their Differences Matter. New York: HarperOne, 2007.

--. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know-And Doesn't. New York: HarperOne, 2007.

Radford, Benjamin. Media Mythmakers: How Journalists, Activists and Advertisers Mislead Us. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003.

--. Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve the Unexplained Mysteries. Corrales, NM: Rhombus, 2010.

Randi, James. An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1995.

--. The Faith Healers. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1989.

--. Flim-Flam! Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1982.

--. The Mask of Nostradamus. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993.

Rees, Martin. Our Final Hour. New York: Basic Books, 2003.

Ryan, Craig. Pre-Astronauts: Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of s.p.a.ce. Annapolis, MD: US Naval Inst.i.tute Press, 2003.

Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. New York: Random House, 1995.

--. The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for G.o.d. New York: Penguin, 2007.

Saler, Benson, Charles A. Ziegler, and Charles B. Moore. UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth. Was.h.i.+ngton, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2010.

Schick, Theodore, and Lewis Vaughn. How to Think about Weird Things. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011.

Scott, Eugenie C. Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

Sharpiro, Rose. Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All. London: Harvill Secker, 2008.

Shenk, David. The Genius in All of Us. New York: Doubleday, 2010.

Shermer, Michael. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and G.o.ds to Politics and Conspiracies-How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. New York: Times Books, 2011.

--. The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

--. Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown. New York: Times Books, 2005.

--. Why Darwin Matters: The Case against Intelligent Design. New York: Times Books, 2006.

--. Why People Believe Weird Things. New York: MJF Books, 1997.

Shermer, Michael, and Alex Grobman. Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? Berkley: University of California Press, 2009.

Shostak, Seth. Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Was.h.i.+ngton, DC: National Geographic, 2009.

Singh, Simon, and Edzard Ernst. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.

Smith, Cameron M. The Fact of Evolution. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2011.

Smith, Cameron M., and Charles Sullivan. The Top 10 Myths about Evolution. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006.

Smith, Jonathan C. Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit. West Suss.e.x, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Soutwood, Richard. The Story of Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Specter, Michael. Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives. New York: Penguin Press, 2009.

Stanovich, Keith E. How to Think Straight about Psychology. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

Stavropaulos, Steven. The Beginning of All Wisdom. Jackson, TN: Da Capo Press, 2003.

Stenger, Victor J. The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2011.

--. The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009.

Striber, Whitley. Communion. New York: Beech Tree Books, 1987.

Stringer, Chris, and Peter Andrews. The Complete World of Human Evolution. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2005.

Stringer, Lauren, and Peters Westberg. Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story. New York: Harcourt Children's Books, 2003.

Tattersall, Ian. Extinct Humans. New York: Basic Books, 2001.

Van Hecke, Madeleine. Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997.

Vankin, Jonathan, and John Whalen. The 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time. New York: Citadel Press Books, 2004.

Van Praagh, James. Ghosts among Us: Uncovering the Truth about the Other Side. New York: HarperOne, 2009.

--. Heaven and Earth: Making the Psychic Connection. New York: Pocket, 2006.

Vyse, Stuart A. Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superst.i.tion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Wanjek, Christopher. Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O. New York: Wiley, 2002.

Ward, Peter D., and Donald Brownlee. The Life and Death of Planet Earth. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.

Webb, Stephen. If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens...Where Is Everybody? New York: Copernicus Books, 2002.