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——, ed. Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003.
——, ed. Skeptical Odysseys. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2001.
——. The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991.
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——. Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions & Healing Cures. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1999.
——. The Mystery Chronicles: More Real-Life X-Files. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
——. Psychic Sleuths: ESP and Sensational Cases. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1994.
——. Relics of the Christ. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
——. Tracking the Man-Beasts: Sasquatch, Vampires, Zombies, and More. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2011.
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——. Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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——. Death from the Skies! New York: Penguin Books, 2008.
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——. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know—And Doesn't. New York: HarperOne, 2007.
Radford, Benjamin. Media Mythmakers: How Journalists, Activists and Advertisers Mislead Us. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003.
——. Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve the Unexplained Mysteries. Corrales, NM: Rhombus, 2010.
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——. The Faith Healers. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1989.
——. Flim-Flam! Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1982.
——. The Mask of Nostradamus. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993.
Rees, Martin. Our Final Hour. New York: Basic Books, 2003.
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——. The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God. New York: Penguin, 2007.
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——. Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown. New York: Times Books, 2005.
——. Why Darwin Matters: The Case against Intelligent Design. New York: Times Books, 2006.
——. Why People Believe Weird Things. New York: MJF Books, 1997.
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——. The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009.
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——. Heaven and Earth: Making the Psychic Connection. New York: Pocket, 2006.
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Wood, Michael. In Search of the Trojan War. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998.
Young, Matt, and Taner Edis. Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006.
Zimmer, Carl. The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution. New York: Roberts, 2009.
Zuckerman, Phil. Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment. New York: NYU Press, 2010.
Abbey, Edward, 81
Adler Planetarium, 140
Africa, 26, 168, 173, 184, 190, 196, 201–202, 204, 228, 229, 231, 267, 293, 355, 356, 403
AIDS, 201–202, 220–22, 347
Air and Space (magazine), 387
Aldrin, Buzz, 91
alien abductions, 132–38
aliens, 100–104, 111, 119–20, 122, 125, 127, 130, 132–38, 365, 379, 382. See also alien abductions
al Qaeda, 174, 193, 196
alternative medicine, 14, 26, 33, 134, 201–10
American Anthropological Association (AAA) statement on race, 226–27
American Institutes for Research, 70
angels, 132, 350–53
Antichrist, 78
Apollo (space program), 89–92
Arafat, Yasser, 60
Aratat (mountain), 300
archaeology, 305–309
Area 51, 382–88
Aristotle, 81, 150
Armstrong, Neil, 89, 90, 95
Arnold, Kenneth, 123, 124
Artilect War, The (De Garis), 413
asteroid strike, 410–11
astrology, 18, 19, 24, 25, 28, 29, 33, 76, 139–43, 276, 318, 324, 357
Atlantis, 28, 352, 374, 393, 363–67
Atlantis: The Lost Continent Revealed (Berlitz), 364
Auschwitz, 157
autism and vaccines, 206, 234–41
Ayatollah Khomeini, 78
Babylonians, 141
Bader, Christopher, 350
Baker, Joseph, 350
Bakker, Jim, 315
Bakker, Tammy Faye, 315
Ballard, Bob, 365
Band of Brothers (television miniseries), 156
Bean, Alan, 91