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"If a tree falls on a scientist in a forest with no one else around does it mean he won't make a sound? Not if that scientist is the indomitable Bob Park, the skeptic's skeptic, the Ralph Nader of nonsense, the man who rose from the (nearly) dead to pen this uncompromising critique of superstition and the beliefs that follow once you abandon science and reason. Read this book. Now." --Michael Shermer, publisher of the Skeptic and author of Why Darwin Matters

 

"Bob Park has done it again. His lucid, humorous, style--the envy of those of us who fancy themselves writers--gets through the pervasive nonsense that he finds everywhere, from the 'afterlife' delusion to intelligent design. He rightly and joyously celebrates how science has led us from the Dark Ages to the brink of understanding a myriad of mysteries that we should contemplate with a reverence that was once reserved for priests and witchdoctors. No one knows better than Bob--personally--the real miracles of medical science surpass anything offered by religion. As he says in this provocative book: 'Science is the only way of knowing--everything else is just religion.'" --James Randi, president of the James Randi Educational Foundation

 

" Superstition is yet more evidence that Bob Park is always worth reading. At times funny, at times acerbic, always thoughtful, Bob Park is not one to 'go with the flow.' There is a lot to think about in this book, as usual." --Eugenie C. Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education

 

"You may have the impression that mythology expired with the ancient Greeks and Romans. Far from it, mythology has only evolved into another perhaps more pervasive form. It is an insidious force in the modern scene. Park slays the modern dragons with authority and acerbic wit, whether it is ESP or intercessory prayer. The book is a delight." --Val Fitch, Princeton University, 1980 Nobel laureate in physics

 

"Opinionated and well-informed, this is a lucid promotion of rationality in a world of rising superstition. We can disagree with the author but he forces us to think harder." --Yves Gingras, University of Quebec, Montreal

 

 

Table of Contents

Introduction: Lessons from a tree vii

Chapter One A Bigger Prize

 

In Which we discover scientists of faith

1 (22)

Chapter Two The Secret of Life

 

In Which Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection survives

23 (33)

Chapter Three Miracle at Columbia

 

In Which both sides pray for victory

56 (23)

Chapter Four Giving up the Ghost

 

In Which we search for the soul

79 (14)

Chapter Five The Silent Army

 

In Which we search for an afterlife

93 (11)

Chapter Six The Tsunami God

 

In Which the innocent suffer

104 (12)

Chapter Seven The New Age

 

In Which anything goes

116 (13)

Chapter Eight Schrodinger's Grave

 

In Which quantum mysticism is found to be superstition

129 (13)

Chapter Nine The Barbary Duck

 

In Which the body heals itself

142 (19)

Chapter Ten The Deer

 

In Which the placebo effect is explained

161 (27)

Chapter Eleven The Moral Law

 

In Which we instinctively know right from wrong

188 (14)

Chapter Twelve The Last Butterfly

 

In Which there is no place else to go

202 (15)

Bibliography 217 (4)

Index 221