Book:Martin Gardner/Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience

Contents

 * Introduction


 * Part I Evolution vs. Creationism
 * 1. Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?
 * 2. Phillip Johnson on Intelligent Design


 * Part II Astronomy
 * 3. Near-Earth Objects: Monsters of Doom?
 * 4. The Star of Bethlehem


 * Part III Physics
 * 5. The Great Egg-Balancing Mystery
 * 6. Zero-point Energy and Harold Puthoff
 * 7. David Bohm: The Guided Wave


 * Part IV Medical Matters
 * 8. Reflexology: To Stop a Toothache, Squeeze a Toe!
 * 9. Urine Therapy


 * Part V Psychology
 * 10. Freud's Flawed Theory of Dreams
 * 11. Post-Freudian Dream Theory
 * 12. Jean Houston: New Age Guru


 * Part VI Social Science
 * 13. Is Cannibalism a Myth?
 * 14. Alan Sokal's Hilarious Hoax
 * 15. The Internet: A World Brain?
 * 16. Carlos Castaneda and New Age Anthropology


 * Part VII UFOs
 * 17. Claiborne Pell, Senator from Outer Space
 * 18. Courtney Brown's Preposterous Farsight
 * 19. Heaven's Gate: The UFO Cult of Bo and Peep


 * Part VII More Fringe Science
 * 20. Thomas Edison, Paranormalist
 * 21. What's Going On at Temple University?


 * Part IX Religion
 * 22. Isaac Newton, Alchemist and Fundamentalist
 * 23. Farrakhan, Cabala, Baha'i, and 19
 * 24. The Numerology of Dr. Khalifa
 * 25. The Religious Views of Stephen Jay Gould and Darwin
 * 26. The Wandering Jew
 * 27. The Second Coming


 * Part X The Last Word
 * 28. Science and the Unknowable


 * Index