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Jonah Cohen wrote:

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> Some nice books, but allow me to offer a couple quibbles:
> 
> 1) Yegads, the list on www.Skeptic.com leaves out 2 true must-haves: "Bad
> Astronomy" by Phil Plait, and "Bad Medicine" by Christopher Wanjek. (The
> latter is less well known, probably cause Bad Astronomy has the benefit of
> Plait's way-keen website.)
I'm not sure their official lists are on the web site. My friend had to buy them 
with the Baloney Detection Kit. Well, maybe not 'had' but that's how he got the 
lists. The three lists I have from him cover about 150 books.
> 
> 2) Hmmm, I notice that one Skeptic.com reader nominated a dangerous-looking,
> conspiracy-laden tome called "What if everything you thought you knew about
> AIDS was wrong?" This book apparently claims that HIV does not cause AIDS,
> there is no serious epidemic of AIDS in Africa, anti-AIDS drugs don't work
> and are more dangerous than the disease itself, and that it's all a big
> conspiracy by governments and pharmaceutical companies to make us think
> otherwise. Call it "when skepticism goes too far"!
Were you on some Skeptic forum? I suspect that's not the view of the 
organization who might have posted to the forum.
> 
> Jonah Cohen
> Outreach & Public Programs Manager
> Science Center of Connecticut
> 
> "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits."
>          -Albert Einstein
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Watson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:26 AM
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> Subject: Science Thinking--An Exhibit of Books?
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> A friend sent me a list, several actually, of books on skeptical (science) 
> thinking by the Skeptic Society, www.skeptic.com. The lists include Top Ten,
> 
> Next 30, the Best of The Rest (nearly 100, and Top 10 for Jr. Skeptics. The
> Top 
> Ten includes "Demon Haunted World", "How We Believe", "The Mismeasure of
> Man", 
> "Fads and Fallacies...", and others. Occasionaly our county library has a
> large 
> table display of books on some topic, such as book banning, women,
> minorities, 
> etc. I thought maybe The Skeptic's list might make a similar display either 
> there, our local community college library, or our museum. The key though
> would 
> be the theme? Science thinking? Critical thinking? Nation science month, if 
> there is such a month? I'd personally like to see one of these organizations
> 
> take up the idea. At a minimum, we might see some books in our libraries
> that 
> are not yet there. Comments?

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