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Critical Thinking About the Paranormal

83 Paranormal Topics Covered

For critical evaluation of paranormal topics, The Skeptic's Dictionary has 31 entries in Logic and Perception and 37 entries in Science and Philosophy

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Sample lesson: For a topic such as ESP the lesson could include

• the ESP entry for a definition;

• the entries on various kinds of ESP: clairaudience, clairvoyance, remote viewing, precognition, and telepathy;

• the parapsychology entry for some information about who studies ESP (such as Charles Tart and Raymond Moody) and how they do it;

• the ganzfeld experiments and the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research studies as examples of the best so far in the field and why they are not that impressive;

• the psychic and medium entries for examples of ESP in practice, and the mentalist entry for a skeptical view of psychic power;

• entries relevant to the criticisms of ESP research (such as the entries on cold reading, subjective validation, selective thinking, confirmation bias, the law of truly large numbers, shoehorning, retrospective clairvoyance, retrospective falsification,  self-deception, and wishful thinking);

• the entry on controlled studies could be used as a springboard to explore some fundamental difficulties with ESP research.

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