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Psychobabble and Biobunk. - Review - book review
Skeptical Inquirer, May, 2001 by Kendrick Frazier
Using Psychology to Think Critically About Issues in the News. Carol Tavris. Prentice Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. 2001. ISBN 0-13-027986-2. 107 pp. Softcover. A collection of short opinion essays and book reviews written for the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and several magazines.
The first eight deal with science versus pseudoscience, including the appeal of pseudoscience, the popularity of predictions, the misuse of opinion polls, the misuses of pop-psych surveys, stories versus statistics, illusory correlations, and thinking critically about alternative medicine and about mystical messages.
COPYRIGHT 2001 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
COPYRIGHT 2001 Gale Group
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