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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.)

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"!

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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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?
-- 
              Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
                  (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
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               studied the law of gravity." -- Bugs Bunny

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