Science Indicators 2000: Belief in the Paranormal or Pseudoscience

Selected Bibliography

Angell, M. 1996. Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case. New York: WW Norton & Company, Inc.

Beyerstein, B.L. 1998. The sorry state of scientific literacy in the industrialized democracies. The Learning Quarterly 2, No. 2:5-11.

The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). Information available from www.csicop.org.

De Robertis, and Delaney. 1993. A survey of the attitudes of university students to astrology and astronomy. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 87, No. 1:34-50.

Evans, W. 1996. Science and reason in film and television. The SKEPTICAL INQUIRER (January/February).

Gallup News Service Poll. 1996. (September). Results are based on telephone interviews with 1,000 adults, age 18 and older, conducted September 3-5, 1996. For results based on the total sample of adults, one can say with 95-percent confidence that the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Gerbner, G. 1987. Science on television: How it affects public conceptions. Issues in Science and Technology (spring): 109-15.

The Harris Poll #41. 1998. Large majority of people believe they will go to Heaven; Only one in fifty thinks they will go to Hell: Many Christians and non-Christians believe in astrology, ghosts, and reincarnation. New York: Louis Harris & Associates, Inc. (August 12). This poll was conducted by telephone within the United States July 17-21, among a nationwide cross-section of 1,011 adults. The results have a statistical precision of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Hartz, J., and R. Chappell. 1997. Worlds Apart: How the Distance Between Science and Journalism Threatens America's Future. Nashville, Tennessee: Freedom Forum First Amendment Center

Maienschein, J., and students. 1999. Commentary: To the future. Argument for scientific literacy. Science Communication (September): 101-13.

Peccei, R., and F. Eiserling. 1996. Literacy for the 21st Century. Los Angeles Times (February 26).

Randi, J. 1992. It's time for science to take a stand against popular superstitions. Time (April 13).

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. 1994.

Sagan, C. 1996. The Demon-Haunted World: Science at a Candle in the Dark. New York: Random House.

Shermer, M. 1997. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusion of Our Time. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company.

Southern Focus Poll. 1998. Conducted by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute for Research in Social Science (Spring). Available from www.irss.unc.edu. The Southern Focus Poll is sponsored by the Institute for Research in Social Science and the Center for the Study of the American South. Each fall and spring, a random sample of approximately 800 adult Southerners (residents of the stares of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) and 400 non-Southerners arc Interviewed by telephone. For more information, see www.trss.unc.edu/irss/researchdesservices/resdesservices.html.