Big-If True

Big-If True

by Benjamin Radford
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Publication Date: 10/11/2020

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This collection of Skeptical Inquirer magazine columns by investigator and folklorist Benjamin Radford guides readers on a science-based (yet open-minded) examination of 70 fascinating and mysterious topics. Drawing on two decades of first-hand research, Big-If True separates fact from fiction using forensics, science, psychology, folklore, and more. Big-If True examines these and dozens more mysteries including Bigfoot, reincarnation, chupacabras, Icelandic elves, conspiracy theories, UFOs, miracles, the terrifying Goat-Man, crop circles, subliminal advertising, sea serpents, wandering trees, medical mysteries, and hypnotist thieves-plus a 1990 Elvis sighting. For mystery lovers and armchair investigators alike, this book offers a look behind the scenes at investigating oddities and curiosities, both ancient and modern.


Chapter One LEGENDS 5


A Skeptic's Guide to Ethical and Effective Curse Removal • Egging the


Equator • Detour: Elves Ahead • Mysteries of the Coral Castle • Is Elvis


Presley in Home Alone? • Searching to Noah Vale • The Bell Witch Mystery


• The Myth of the Walking Tree • Bailing in the Mummies • Might Fright


Cause White? • (and more)


Chapter Two MONSTERS 51


Cryptozoology and Global Warming • The Mystery of the Texas


Chupacabra • Texas Goat-Men and the Chupacabra • A Wakey Water


'Monster' • Globsters Ahoy! • Investigating Mothman's Red Eyeshine


Chapter Three GHOSTS 83


Do Einstein's Laws Endorse Ghosts? • 'M' is for Mysterious Marks •


Have I Ever Seen a Ghost? • Soul Scales • The Cockington Church Ghost


Photo • Can Electromagnetic Fields Create Ghosts? • Infrared Cameras


and Ghost Hunting • A Closer Look at Orbs • The Sweet Spirit Sounds


of Rosemary Brown • (and more)


Chapter Four MYSTERIOUS POWERS AND PLACES 121


A Time to Die? • Crop Circle Origins • The GIGO Problem: Crop Circle


Research Edition • Channeling Ancient African Wisdom-Or Not • Mystery


of the Paulding Light • Dowsing: Dubious and Discredited • Fatima


Miracle Claims All Wet • Uri Geller Revisited • Did Psychic Visions


Locate Missing California Boy? • Beware Mesmer Thieves! • Secrets of


Spectacularly Skewered Skin


Chapter Five UFOs 165


The Phantom Menace of UFO Revelation • The Mysterious Phoenix


Lights • The Mysterious, Invisible 'Rods'


Chapter Six HEALTH AND MEDICINE 175


Bodytalk: Boon or Bogus? • Exercising the Brain Gym • Kinoki Foot Pads


• Diving HeadOn Into Pseudoscience • Subliminal Advertising, Trumpian


and Otherwise • Freaky Feldenkrais • Measuring Near-Death Experience


• A 100C Grain of Truth to Homeopathy? • Battle Over the BMI • The


Mysterious Morgellons Malady • Childbirth-Natural or 'Unnatural'? •


Vegetable Oil or Snake Oil?: The Pseudoscience of "Oil Pulling" • The


Pseudoscience of Personalysis • Left Brain or Right Brain? • (and more)


Chapter Seven CONSPIRACIES 229


Sandy Hook School Shooting: The Adam Lanza Death Certificate Conspiracy


• Curious Contrails: Death From the Sky? • The Truth About the 9/11


Truthers • Is America a Sheeple Factory?


Chapter Eight SKEPTICISM 243


Legitimizing Woo • Just Asking Questions • Caught Between the Possible


and the Paranormal • Dealing With Believers in Skeptical Investigation •


Anomaly Hunting • Mystery Solved-According to Whom? • Paranormal


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ISBN:
9780936455181
9780936455181
Category:
Uncategorized
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
10-11-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Rhombus Publishing Company

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