- •Table of Contents
- •Author’s Note
- •Preface to the Original Edition
- •Preface to the Current Edition
- •Acknowledgements
- •Acknowledgements for the Digital Edition
- •Introduction The Deadly Misinformation
- •Isaac Asimov
- •Fairies at the Foot of the Garden Come out, come out! Come out upon the hill! Up there, down there— Fairies—everywhere!
- •"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot"
- •Into the Air, Junior Birdmen! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
- •The Giggling Guru: a Matter of Levity
- •Chariots in Flames The Paper Seven eighths of everything is unseen
- •The Laurel and Hardy of Psi
- •The Great Fliess Fleece There is a time in the tides of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to success. On the other hand, don't count on it.
- •The Medical Humbugs To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
- •Homo vult decipi; decipiatur. "Man wishes to be deceived; deceive him."
- •The Will to Believe Man's capacity for self-delusion is infinite.
- •Off the Deep End
- •It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
- •Gods with Feats of Clay
- •Put Up or Shut Up Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced.
- •Epilogue
- •Appendix
- •Winners for 1980 were:
- •Winners for 1981 were:
- •Selected Bibliography
- •Periodicals
- •The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge
- •About the Author
- •About the jref
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