• Syllabus
• Reading Material

1. INTRODUCTION
1. Skepticism and Critical Thinking - Part I
   [reading: PBS "Introduction," pp.68-75]
2. Skepticism and Critical Thinking - Part II
   [reading: PBS pp.5-23; HM pp.31-39]
3. Skepticism and the Paranormal
   [reading: PBS pp.77-110; SCP Chapters 5 & 6]


2. PARAPSYCHOLOGY
1. Extrasensory Perception: Clairvoyance, Telepathy, and Precognition
   [reading: SCP Chapters 3, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 21; HM pp.125-148]
2. Psychokinesis
   [reading: PBS pp.111-127; SCP Chapters 14, 15, 16 & 17; HM pp.149-170]
3. Psychic Healing and Medical Controversies
   [reading: HM pp.247-261, 271-278]
4. Mind and Body
   [reading: PBS pp.151-178; HM Part 3]
5. The New Age: Channeling, Crystals, and Other Popular Claims
   [reading: HM pp.171-199, 209-221]


3. PSEUDOSCIENCE
1. Fringe Archaeology
   [reading: PBS pp.305-347; SCP Chapters 30, 31 & 32]
2. Astrology
   [reading: PBS pp.233-262; SCP Chapter 22; HM Part 7]
3. UFOs
   [reading: PBS pp.464-465; SCP Chapters 26, 27, 28 & 29; HM Part 8]
4. Cryptozoology
   [reading: SCP Chapter 38]
5. Creationism and the Shroud of Turin
   [reading: PBS pp.379-390; SCP Chapters 34, 35, 36 & 37]
6. The Bermuda Triangle, Easter Island, Atlantis, and Other Mysterious Places
   [reading: PBS pp.281-287]
7. Institutionalized Pseudoscience: Biorhythms, Polygraphs, Graphology, Chiropractic & Psychotherapy
   [reading: PBS pp.189-218; HM pp.200-208, 262-270]
8. Institutionalized Paranormality: Religion and the Existence of God
   [reading: HM Part 1]

• Paranormal Borderlands of Science (1981) edited by Kendrick Frazier. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.
• Science Confronts the Paranormal (1986) edited by Kendrick Frazier. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.
• The Hundredth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal (1991) edited by Kendrick Frazier. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.

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