Suggested Auxiliary Reading

You can pick up used books cheap online from Abebooks and in person from Half
Price Books.
Skeptical titles are available from Prometheus Books
Good Science *
New
Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine by Paul A. Offit
Homeopathy and its Kindred Delusions by Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Randi (Foreword),
Harriet A. Hall (Introduction)
The AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back by Nicoli Nattrass
Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth by Bart Ehrman
Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation by Elaine Pagels
God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion by Victor J. Stenger
Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore by Benjamin Radford
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There by Richard Wiseman
Informing the News by Thomas E. Patterson
Highly Recommended
Mendel in the kitchen: a scientist's view of genetically modified foods by
Nina Vsevolod Fedoroff, Nancy Marie Brown
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st
Century by Burton Richter (Nobel Prize in Physics)
Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science by Robert L. Park
Voodoo Science : The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert L. Park
Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who
We Think They Are by Bart D. Ehrman
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know
About Them) by Bart D. Ehrman
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters by Donald R. Prothero
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine by Simon Singh and Edzard
Ernst
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul by Edward Humes
Kitzmiller et al. vs. Dover Area School District et al. Memorandum Opinion 20 Dec 2005 by Judge
John E. Jones III (Intelligent Design)
The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved by Larry Kusche
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt,
Stephen J. Dubner
Imaginary Weapons : A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld by Sharon
Weinberger
The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney
Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts by the Editors of
Popular Mechanics (Author), John McCain (Foreword), David Dunbar (Editor), Brad Reagan
(Editor)
Future Babble: Why Pundits are Hedgehogs and Foxes Know Best by Dan Gardner
Is That a Fact? by Mark Battersby
FREE!!!
The Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the
Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin
Read it online! Here is another online version.
Science, Evolution, and Creationism by National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine
Read it online for free! or download a free PDF copy after registering
Kitzmiller et al. vs. Dover Area School District et al. Memorandum Opinion 20 Dec 2005 by Judge
John E. Jones III (Intelligent Design)
Reading,Writing & Religion II: Texas Public School Bible Courses in 2011-12 by Professor Mark
A. Chancey
Reading,Writing & Religion: Teaching the Bible in Texas Public Schools (Updated Edition) by
Professor Mark A. Chancey
Liars for Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History by Chris Rodda
Supreme Court of South Australia Justice John Sulan's decision (PDF format); (MSWord format) in
R v PARENZEE (HIV/AIDS Denial)
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay, Bernard M.
Baruch Read it online!
Report of the Independent Review Panel by Dick Thornburgh and Louis D. Boccardi (about the
Killian memos) On the September 8, 2004 60 Minutes Wednesday Segment "For the Record"
Concerning President Bush's Texas Air National Guard Service
Global Warming
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco
Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last
Chance to Save Humanity by James Hansen
Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate by Stephen H. Schneider
Climate Change Science and Policy by Stephen H. Schneider
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming by Chris Mooney
Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global
Warming by Mark Bowen
Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming by James Hoggan
A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century by Burton Richter
(Nobel Prize in Physics)
Evolution
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design and the Easter Bunny by Barrett
Brown and Jon P. Alston
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
Scientists Confront Creationism by Laurie R. Godfrey (Editor)
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by
Richard Dawkins (response to Intelligent Design by William Dembski)
Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism by Robert T. Pennock
Science, Evolution, and Creationism by Nas Steering Comte on Science & Creation
Read it online for free! or download a free PDF copy after registering
Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences
The Creationists by Ronald L. Numbers
Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism by Philip Kitcher
Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific
Perspectives by Robert T. Pennock (Editor)
The Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the
Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin
Read it online! Here is another online version.
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated by Steve Jones
Kitzmiller et al. vs. Dover Area School District et al. Memorandum Opinion 20 Dec 2005 by Judge
John E. Jones III (Intelligent Design)
Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution by Douglas J. Futuyma
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould
Other books by Stephen Jay Gould - read any or all
What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr
Defending Evolution: A Guide to the Evolution/Creation Controversy by Brian J. Alters, Sandra M.
Alters, Alters, National Safety Council
The Mythmaker's Magic: Behind the Illusion of "Creation Science" by Delos B. McKown
Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design by Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross
Evolution vs. Creationism : An Introduction by Eugenie C. Scott
Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools by Eugenie C. Scott and
Glenn Branch
The Top 10 Myths About Evolution by Cameron M. Smith and Charles Sullivan
Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism edited by Matt Young
and Taner Edis
Summer for the Gods : The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and
Religion by Edward J. Larson
Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement by John Brockman (Editor)
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design by Michael Shermer
Science and Earth History: The Evolution/Creation Controversy by Arthur N. Strahler
The Abyss of Time: Unraveling the Mystery of the Earth's Age by Claude C. Albritton, Jr.
Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution by Edward J. Larson
The Dover Books Cometh from the Panda's Thumb
Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul by Edward
Humes
40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin, and Other Oddities
on Trial in Pennsylvania by Matthew Chapman (the great-great-grandson of Charles
Darwin!)
The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School
Board in Dover, PA by Gordy Slack
The Devil in Dover: A Journalist's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America by
Lauri Lebo
God on Trial: Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields by Peter Irons
The Panda's Black Box: Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy Nathaniel C.
Comfort (Editor)
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul by Kenneth R. Miller
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution by
Kenneth R. Miller
Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present by
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, Richard York
Mr. Belloc Objects to 'Outline of History' by H.G. Wells
Soon to be re-released with comments from Martin Gardner
Religion
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know
About Them) by Bart D. Ehrman
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman
Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus,
Mary Magdalene, and Constantine by Bart D. Ehrman
Reading,Writing & Religion: Teaching the Bible in Texas Public Schools (Updated Edition) by
Professor Mark A. Chancey
God in the Classroom: Religion and America's Public Schools by R. Murray Thomas
The Resurrection: History and Myth by Geza Vermes
The Faith Healers by James Randi
Who Wrote the New Testament? : The Making of the Christian Myth by Burton L. Mack
Scientology: More than a cult? by L. Kin
Scientology: A Handbook For Use by L. Kin
A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed by Jon Atack
Resurrection: Myth or Reality? by Bishop John Shelby Spong
Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile by Bishop John
Shelby Spong
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism : A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture by Bishop
John Shelby Spong
Modern Apocrypha, Famous Biblical Hoaxes by Edgar J. Goodspeed [The Beacon Press, Boston,
1956]
Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church by Simon G. Southerton
A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White
The Counter-Creationism Handbook by Mark Isaak
Storms over Genesis: Biblical Battleground in America's Wars of Religion by William H. Jennings
When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law by Shawn Francis Peters
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Shroud of Turin
Inquest On The Shroud Of Turin : Latest Scientific Findings by Joe Nickell
Judgment Day for the Shroud of Turin by Walter McCrone
Relic, Icon or Hoax?: Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud by Harry E Gove
UFOs / Roswell
The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup by Philip J. Klass
UFOs: The Public Deceived by Philip J. Klass
UFO Abductions: A Dangerous Game by Philip J. Klass
Abducted : How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens by Susan A. Clancy
The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know by Kal K Korff
THE UFO CRASH AT ROSWELL: THE GENESIS OF A MODERN MYTH by Benson Saler,
Charles A. Ziegler, and Charles B. Moore
The Roswell Report: Case Closed by Captain James McAndrew, USAF
Roswell : Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe by Karl T. Pflock
Medicine / Alternative Medicine
Natural Causes: Death, Lies and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry by
Dan Hurley
Chiropractic: The Victim's Perspective by George Magner
Chiropractic : the Greatest Hoax of the Century? by Ludmil Adam Chotkowski, Stephen Barrett
(Editor)
Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine by R. Barker Bausell
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine by Simon Singh and Edzard
Ernst
Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism by Roy Richard Grinker
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul A. Offit
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All by Paul A. Offit
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth Mnookin
Health Schemes, Scams and Frauds by Stephen Barrett and Consumer Reports Books
The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America by Steven Barrett and William T.
Jarvis
A Consumers Guide to Alternative Medicine: A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith-
Healing, and Other Unconventional Treatments by Kurt Butler (Author) and Stephen Barrett
(Editor)
Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine by John Abramson
Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into
Patients by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It by Marcia
Angell
Hoaxes and Deception
The Museum of Hoaxes: A Collection of Pranks, Stunts, Deceptions, and Other Wonderful Stories
Contrived for the Public from the Middle Ages to the New Millennium by Alex Boese
A Treasury of Deception by Michael Farquhar
Literary Hoaxes by Melissa Katsoulis
Cold Fusion
Bad Science : The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion by Gary Taubes
Too Hot to Handle : The Race for Cold Fusion by Frank Close
Cold Fusion : The Scientific Fiasco of the Century by John Huizenga
Math / Statistics / Economics
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos
Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
Tainted Truth: The Manipulation of Fact in America by Cynthia Crossen
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception by Charles Seife
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Seeing Through Statistics by Jessica M. Utts
Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists by Joel
Best
More Damned Lies and Statistics by Joel Best
Calculated Risks: How To Know When Numbers Deceive You by Gerd Gigerenzer
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt,
Stephen J. Dubner
Blog
History / Archaeology / Anthropology
Selling Hitler by Robert Harris
Great Forgers and Famous Fakes: The Manuscript Forgers of America and How They Duped the
Experts by Charles Hamilton
Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History Vol. 1 by Chris
Rodda
Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology by Kenneth L. Feder
The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy by William Arens
The Day the Universe Changed (Revised Edition) by James Burke
Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of American History by Richard Shenkman
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W.
Loewen
Not So!: Popular Myths About America's Past from Columbus to Clinton by Paul F. Boller
The Abyss of Time: Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity After the Sixteenth Century by
Claude C. Albritton, Jr.
Origin of Continents and Oceans by Alfred Wegener
Piltdown Man (Hoax)
The Piltdown Men by Ronald Millar
The Piltdown Forgery by J. S. Weiner
The Piltdown Inquest by Charles Blinderman
Piltdown : a scientific forgery by Frank Spencer
Unraveling Piltdown:: The Science Fraud of the Century and Its Solution by John Evangelist
Walsh
Piltdown Man : The Secret Life of Charles Dawson & The World's Greatest Archaeological Hoax
by Miles Russell
Eyewitness Testimony / Psychology
Mistaken Identification: The Eyewitness, Psychology and the Law by Brian L. Cutler and Steven D.
Penrod
On the Witness: Essays on Psychology and Crime by Hugo Munsterberg, 1908/1923
The Science of Judicial Proof, As Given By Logic, Psychology, and General Experience, and
Illustrated in Judicial Trials by John Henry Wigmore, 1937
Convicting the Innocent: Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice by Edwin M. Borchard,
Garden City 1932
Eyewitness Identification in Criminal Cases by Patrick Wall, Charles Thomas 1965
Eyewitness Testimony by Elizabeth F. Loftus (Harvard 1979)
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not by Robert Burton
Mistakes were made, but not by me by Tavris and Aronson
Propaganda
Propaganda by Edward Bernays
Falsehood in Wartime by Arthur Ponsonby
Propaganda Techniques in the World War by Harold D. Lasswell
The Black Game by Ellic Howe (hard to find)
Black Boomerang by Sefton Delmer (expensive)
How to Understand Propaganda by Alfred M. Lee
Age of Propaganda by Anthony Pratkanis & Elliott Aronson
Propaganda for War by H. C. Peterson
General Skepticism
unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall
Jamieson
Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal
Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our
Time by Michael Shermer
Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? by Michael
Shermer and Alex Grobman
Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens
Our Lives by Michael Specter
Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health by David
Michaels
Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science by Robert L. Park
Voodoo Science : The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert L. Park
False Impressions by Thomas Hoving (about art fraud)
Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus by Martin Gardner
The New Age: Notes of a Fringe-Watcher by Martin Gardner
On the Wild Side by Martin Gardner
Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher by Martin Gardner
Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, and
Other Dubious Subjects by Martin Gardner
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner
The Borderlands of Science : Where Sense Meets Nonsense by Michael Shermer
The Undergrowth of Science : Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty by Walter Graetzer
Yes, We Have No Neutrons : An Eye-Opening Tour through the Twists and Turns of Bad Science by
A. K. Dewdney
Facing Up : Science and Its Cultural Adversaries by Steven Weinberg
Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing
"Hoax" by Philip C. Plait
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural : James Randi's
Decidedly Skeptical Definitions of Alternate Realities by James Randi
Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction : Where Reality Ends and Illusion Begins by Charles M.
Wynn and Arthur W. Wiggins
Thinking Critically About New Age Ideas by W.D. Gray
Becoming a Critical Thinker: A Guide for the New Millennium by Robert Todd Carroll
The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg
Pseudoscience and the Paranormal: A Critical Examination of the Evidence by Terence Hines
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas
Gilovich
Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation by Nicholas
Humphrey
The Truth About Uri Geller by James Randi
The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer by James Randi
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay, Bernard M.
Baruch Read it online!
QED - The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Phillips Feynman
Round in Circles: Poltergeists, Pranksters, and the Secret History of the Cropwatchers by Jim
Schnabel
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Powers: Testing the Psychic and Supernatural by Danny Korem
The Star of Bethlehem : The Legacy of the Magi by Michael R. Molnar
The Complete Book of Extraterrestrial Encounters: The Ideas of Carl Sagan, Erich Von D'Aniken,
Billy Graham, Carl Jung, John C. Lilly, John G. Fulle by Randall Fitzgerald
The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved by Larry Kusche
How Not to Test a Psychic: Ten Years of Remarkable Experiments With Renowned Clairvoyant
Pavel Stepanek by Martin Gardner
The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn by Diane Ravitch
Dumbing Down Our Kids : Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read,
Write, or Add by Charles J. Sykes
Give Me a Break : How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of
the Liberal Media by John Stossel
Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity : Get Out the Shovel--Why Everything You Know is Wrong
by John Stossel
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
Critical Thinking by Brooke Noel Moore and Richard Parker
Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience by Georges Charpak, Henri Broch, Bart K.
Holland (Translator)
The Outer Edge: Classic Investigations of the Paranormal edited by Joe Nickell, Barry Karr, and
Tom Genoni
Big Bang: The Origin Of The Universe by Simon Singh
On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions by Peter Douglas Ward
Ghost Ship : The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew by Brian Hicks
The Disappearance of Flight 19 by Larry Kusche
ESP Seers and Psychics by Milbourne Christopher (a magician)
Psychic Sleuths: Esp and Sensational Cases by Joe Nickell (Editor)
The Search for Psychic Power by C.E.M. Hansel
A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology by Paul Kurtz (Editor)
Physics and Psychics : The Search for a World Beyond the Senses by Victor J. Stenger
Superstition and the Press by Curtis MacDougall
The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney
Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith Groups That Twist
Science for Their Own Gain by Dan Agin, Ph.D.
Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration by Seth Shulman
Scientific Blunders : A Brief History of How Wrong Scientists Can Sometimes Be by Robert M.
Youngson
Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology edited by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn,
Jeffrey M. Lohr
Rocks of Ages : Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould
Science Friction : Where the Known Meets the Unknown by Michael Shermer
Uncommon Sense : The Heretical Nature of Science by Alan Cromer
Imaginary Weapons : A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld by Sharon
Weinberger
Astrology: True or False? : A Scientific Evaluation by Roger B. Culver, Philip A. Ianna
Science and Unreason by Daisie Radner
Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal
Betrayers of the truth by William Broad and Nicholas Wade
The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science by Horace Freeland Judson
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
Worlds of Their Own: Insights into PseudoScience from Creationism to The End Times by Robert
Schadewald
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco
Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About
It by Al Gore
The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story by Greg Long
Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend by David J. Daegling
Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map by Kirsten A. Seaver
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
by Lee Smolin
Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory And the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter
Woit
Evaluating Scientific Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Intellectual Due Process by
Erica Beecher-Monas
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David
Aaronovitch
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
Lysenko and the Tragedy of Soviet Science by Valery N. Soyfer
The Lysenko Affair by David Joravsky
Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy by Seth C. Kalichman
Mortal Combat: AIDS Denialism and the Struggle for Antiretrovirals in South Africa by Nicoli
Nattrass
Why Science? by James Trefil
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful
Acts by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
Science, Nonscience, and Nonsense: Approaching Environmental Literacy by Michael Zimmerman
Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend by Jeffrey S. Victor
The Write Stuff: Evaluations of Graphology-The Study of Handwriting Analysis by Barry L.
Beyerstein and Dale F. Beyerstein
Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts by the Editors of
Popular Mechanics (Author), John McCain (Foreword), David Dunbar (Editor), Brad Reagan
(Editor)
The 9/11 Commission Report
Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery by John Waller
Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms by Robert M. Price
Adventures in Paranormal Investigation by Joe Nickell
Counterknowledge: How We Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science
and Fake History by Damian Thompson
Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition by Stuart A. Vyse
unSpun: Finding facts in a World of Disinformation by Jackson and Jamieson
Some good science, some bad science *
Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares & Scams by Steven J. Milloy
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by
Brian Greene
Bad Science *
(Un)Intelligent Design / Creationism (same thing, two names)
The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism by Michael
J. Behe
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael
J. Behe
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology by William
Dembski
The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions About
Intelligent Design by William A. Dembski
Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About
Evolution is Wrong by Jonathan Wells
The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery by Guillermo
Gonzalez and Jay Richards
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds by Phillip E. Johnson
Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson
Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological Origins by Percival Davis and Dean H.
Kenyon - this was the "textbook" suggested as an Intelligent Design reference for ninth graders in
the Dover, PA, court case. See also the Wikipedia entry.
The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications by John C. Whitcomb, Jr.
and Henry Madison Morris
Scientific Creationism by Henry M. Morris
Pretty much anything written by Henry M. Morris
UFOs / Roswell
The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore
UFO Crash at Roswell by Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt
Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a UFO by Stanton T. Friedman and
Don Berliner
The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell by Kevin D.Randle and Donald R. Schmitt
Captured! - the Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World's First
Documented Alien Abduction by Stanton T. Friedman

AIDS Denial
Inventing the AIDS Virus by Peter Deusberg
Infectious AIDS: Have We Been Misled?: The Fallacy of the HIV-AIDS Connection by Peter
Duesberg
AIDS: The Good News Is HIV Doesn't Cause It by Peter H. Duesberg and John Yiamouyiannis
Science Sold Out: Does HIV Really Cause AIDS? by Rebecca Culshaw (Yes, it really does!)
What if everything you thought you knew about AIDS was wrong? by Christine Maggiore (What if
you killed your own daughter, Christine?)
Alternative Medicine
Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy by
David Kirby
Climate Denial
The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania by Steve Goreham
(Thanks for sending us the free book, Fred Singer.)
Here is a review.
Other Nonsense
Chariots of the Gods? by Erich Von Daniken
Crystal Enlightenment: The Transforming Properties of Crystals and Healing Stones by Katrina
Raphaell
The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin
Bible Code II: The Countdown by Michael Drosnin
Organon of the Medical Art by Samuel Hahnemann - The Homeopathy "Bible"
Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz
Without a Trace: New Information from the Triangle by Charles Frambach Berlitz
The Ark of Noah by David Fasold
The Afterlife Experiments by Gary Schwartz
Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About by Kevin Trudeau
See also Why You Shouldn't Buy Kevin Trudeau's "Natural Cures" Book from Quackwatch.org
Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter (Don't waste your money on a copy of this
book, but if you happen to find one in a trash bin somewhere...)
Book review from Media Matters
Book review from Skeptical Inquirer (March-April 2007): p48(3)
"The extremist author Ann Coulter has taken up Discovery [Institute]'s cause in her fact-
challenged, hate-filled best seller, Godless, which foists on a credulous readership one
distortion after another about evolution, intelligent design, Dover, and Judge Jones's ruling.
Coulter has the ability to infulence millions of Americans; she could have educated her
readers about evolution, about the separation of church and state, about ways that science and
religion can coexist. Instead, she wrote a work laden with falsehood that makes Dr. Dino
sound positively scholarly, and she did it with the help of the intelligent design movement's
intellectual leader, William Dembski."
--Edward Humes in Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for
America's Soul
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science by Jeff Meldrum. See the review from Skeptical Inquirer
magazine.
Galileo Was Wrong by Robert A. Sungenis and Robert J. Bennett
A Geocentricity Primer/The Geocentric Bible 3 [Two Books in One] by Gerandus D Bouw and
Gordon Bane
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You can not report on the following books, but they are worth reading:
1984 by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay
The Darwin Awards I by Wendy Northcutt
The Darwin Awards II by Wendy Northcutt
The Darwin Awards III by Wendy Northcutt
The IgNobel Prizes by Marc Abrahams
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson
List of banned books from Wikipedia - read as many as you can and don't let ANYBODY tell you
what you can't read.
* In the opinion of the instructors and other rational people.