Exposed!: Ouija, Firewalking, and Other Gibberish

In this rational look at dowsing, ESP, astrology and other pseudo-scientific phenomena, physicist Broch exposes the trickery employed by paranormal practitioners and teaches readers how to recreate their own so-called supernatural effects at home. His examination of the shroud of Turin, for example, calls on research from the fourteenth century to the present to conclude the shroud is a hoax, created to profit a particular church, and details how Broch made his own shroud at home. Readers will also learn how to concoct saint's blood, hold hot coals, and complete controlled ouija experiments. Broch also covers circular reasoning, snowballing of anecdotal evidence, escalation of commitment and other techniques used to explain and defend paranormal phenomena. He counsels for an education system focused on reason and skepticism, and for consumers to pay attention to small details and motivation in practitioner justifications: ""It's not so easy to separate the wheat from the chaff when so many publications seek to mystify rather than demystify.""