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'The Demon-Haunted World'
Science as a Candle in the Dark

Carl Sagan

'Why People Believe Weird Things'
Pseudoscience, Superstition and
other Confusions of our Time

Michael Shermer

'Unweaving the Rainbow'
Science, Delusion and
the Appetite for Wonder

Richard Dawkins

'The Skeptic's Guide
to the Paranormal'

Lynne Kelly

'Pseudoscience and the Paranormal'

Terence Hines

'How Mumbo-Jumbo
Conquered The World'

Francis Wheen

'Science Friction'
Where the Known Meets the Unknown

Michael Shermer

'The Borderlands of Science'
Where Science Meets Nonsense

Michael Shermer

'Borderlands'
The Ultimate Exploration of the Unknown

Mike Dash

'Believing in Magic'
The Psychology of Superstition

Stuart A. Vyse

'Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast'
The Evolutionary Origins of Belief

Lewis Wolpert

'Debunked!'
ESP ~ Telekinesis ~ Other Pseudoscience

Georges Charpak and Henri Broch

'Quirkology'
The Curious Science of Everyday Lives

Richard Wiseman

'James Randi: Psychic Investigator'
In Search of the Paranormal

James Randi

'Did Adam and Eve have Navels?'
Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology,
Urine Therapy and other Dubious Subjects

Martin Gardner

'Oddzone'
Paranormal Phenomena, Alien Abductions,
Animal Mysteries, Psychics and Mediums
and other Weird Kiwi Stuff

Vicki Hyde

'Dark White'
Aliens, Abductions, and the UFO Obsession

Jim Schnabel

'Round in Circles'
Physicists, Poltergeists, Pranksters and the
Secret History of the Crop Watchers

Jim Schnabel

'Flim-Flam!'
Psychics, ESP, Unicorns
and other Delusions

James Randi

'The Supernatural A-Z'
The Truth and the Lies

James Randi

'UFOs Explained'

Philip J. Klass

'UFOs'
The Public Deceived

Philip J. Klass

'The UFO Phenomena'
A Scientific Look at the Evidence
for Extraterrestrial Contacts

Edward Ashpole

'The UFO Invasion'
The Roswell Incident, Alien Abductions
and Government Coverups

Edited by Kendrick Frazier,
Barry Karr, Joe Nickell

'Dying to Live'
Science and the Near-Death Experience

Susan Blackmore

'Good Luck Mr Gorsky'
Urban Myths and Legends
and What They Really Mean

Robert Pollock

'Voodoo Science'
The Road from Foolishness to Fraud

Robert Park

'Bad Science'
Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

Ben Goldacre

'How We Know What Isn't So'
The Fallibility of Human Reason
in Everyday Life

Thomas Gilovich

'Skeptical Odysseys'
Personal Accounts by the World's
Leading Paranormal Inquirers

Edited by Paul Kurtz

'How to Think About Weird Things'
Critical Thinking for a New Age

Theodore Schick & Lewis Vaughn

'Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials'
The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety

Wendy Kaminer

'Voodoo Histories'
The Role of the Conspiracy Theory
in Shaping Modern History

David Aaronovitch

'Weird Science'
The Unexplained Explained by Science

Michael White

'Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity'
Get Out the Shovel —
Why Everything You Know is Wrong

John Stossel

'Complementary Therapies for Cancer'
What Works, What Doesn't...
and How to Tell the Difference

Professor Shaun Holt

'Kluge'
The Haphazard Construction
of the Human Mind

Gary Marcus

'The Skeptic's Dictionary'
A Collection of Strange Beliefs,
Amusing Deceptions &
Dangerous Delusions

Robert Todd Carroll

'The March of Unreason'
Science, Democracy, and
the New Fundamentalism

Dick Taverne

'Paranormality'
Why We Believe the Impossible

Professor Richard Wiseman

'Denying History'
Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened
and Why Do They Say It?

Michael Shermer & Alex Grobman

'The Believing Brain'
From Ghosts and Gods to
Politics and Conspiracies —
How We Construct Beliefs and
Reinforce Them as Truths

Michael Shermer

'50 Popular Beliefs
That People Think Are True'

Guy P. Harrison

'Believing Bullshit'
How Not to Get Sucked into an
Intellectual Black Hole

Stephen Law

'Myths and Mysteries in Archaeology'

Susan A. Johnston

'Missing Pieces'
How to Investigate Ghosts, UFOs,
Psychics, & Other Mysteries

Robert A. Baker & Joe Nickell

'Bad Pharma'
How Drug Companies Mislead
Doctors and Harm Patients

Ben Goldacre

'An Illustrated Book
of Bad Arguments'

Ali Almossawi

'Caveman Logic'
The Persistence of Primitive Thinking
in a Modern World

Hank Davis

'Trick or Treatment?'
Alternative Medicine on Trial

Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst

'Bad Astronomy'
Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed,
from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"

Philip Plait

'Faking History'
Essays on Aliens, Atlantis,
Monsters, and More

Jason Colavito

'Superstition'
Belief in the Age of Science

Robert L. Park

'Empires of Belief'
Why We Need More Scepticism and
Doubt in the Twenty-First Century

Stuart Sim

'Wilful Blindness'
Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

Margaret Heffernan

'The Flight from Science and Reason'

Edited by Paul R. Gross,
Norman Levitt, Martin W. Lewis

'Merchants of Doubt'
How a Handful of Scientists
Obscured the Truth on Issues from
Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

'Thinking Clearly'
A Guide to Critical Reasoning

Jill LeBlanc

'Abducted'
How People Come to Believe
They Were Kidnapped by Aliens

Susan A. Clancy

'Spook'
Science Tackles
the Afterlife

Mary Roach

'Suckers'
How Alternative Medicine
Makes Fools of Us All

Rose Shapiro

'SuperSense'
From Superstition to Religion -
the Brain Science of Belief

Bruce Hood

'Science, Nonscience, and Nonsense'
Approaching Environmental Literacy

Michael Zimmerman

'Denialism'
How Irrational Thinking Hinders
Scientific Progress, Harms the
Planet, and Threatens Our Lives

Michael Specter

'Deadly Choices'
How the Anti-Vaccine Movement
Threatens Us All

Paul A. Offit

'Suspicious Minds'
Why We Believe
Conspiracy Theories

Rob Brotherton

'Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction'
Where Real Science Ends...
and Pseudoscience Begins

Charles M. Wynn and Arthur W. Wiggins

'Lies, Damned Lies, and Science'
How to Sort Through the Noise Around
Global Warming, the Latest Health Claims,
and Other Scientific Controversies

Sherry Seethaler

'American Hauntings'
The True Stories behind Hollywood's Scariest Movies — from The Exorcist to The Conjuring

Robert E. Bartholomew and Joe Nickell

'Weaponized Lies'
How to Think Critically
in the Post-Truth Era

Daniel J. Levitin

'UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens'
What Science Says

Donald R. Prothero and
Timothy D. Callahan

'The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking'
How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us
Happy, Healthy, and Sane

Matthew Hutson

'Bad UFOs'
Critical Thinking About UFO Claims

Robert Sheaffer

'Escaping the Rabbit Hole'
How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories
Using Facts, Logic, and Respect

Mick West

'The Moon Hoax?'
Conspiracy Theories on Trial

Thomas Eversberg

'Calculated Risks'
How to Know when Numbers Deceive You

Gerd Gigerenzer

'The Cartoon Introduction
to Climate Change'

Grady Klein and Yoram Bauman

'The Thinking Person's Guide
to Climate Change'

Robert Henson

'Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change'
How to Understand and Respond
to Climate Science Deniers

John Cook

'The Physics of Climate Change'

Lawrence M. Krauss

'Anti-vaxxers'
How to Challenge a
Misinformed Movement

Jonathan M. Berman

'Top 10 Vaccine Objections'
Doubts and Conversations

Alex Ramirez

'The Way of Science'
Finding Truth and Meaning
in a Scientific Worldview

Dennis R. Trumble

'Fakers, Forgers & Phoneys'
Famous Scams and Scamps

Magnus Magnusson

'Scientific Paranormal Investigation'
How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries

Benjamin Radford

'Investigating Ghosts'
The Scientific Search for Spirits

Benjamin Radford

'COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories'
QAnon, 5G, the New World Order
and Other Viral Ideas

John Bodner, Wendy Welch, Lan Brodie,
Anna Muldoon, Donald Leech
and Ashley Marshall

'A Survival Guide to
the Misinformation Age'
Scientific Habits of Mind

David J. Helfand

'Weird Earth'
Debunking Strange Ideas
about Our Planet

Donald R. Prothero

'I Have Nothing to Hide'
And 20 Other Myths About
Surveillance and Privacy

Heidi Boghosian

'Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders'
A Writer's (& Editor's) Guide to Keeping
Historical Fiction Free of Common
Anachronisms, Errors, & Myths

Susanne Alleyn

'How To Be Right'
... in a World Gone Wrong

James O'Brien

'How to Talk to a Science Denier'
Conversations with Flat Earthers,
Climate Deniers, and Others Who
Defy Reason

Lee McIntyre

'Modern Conspiracies in America'
Separating Fact from Fiction

Michael D. Gambone

'The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe'
How to Know What's Really Real
in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

Steven Novella

'Debunked'
Deconstructing Influential
Conspiracy Theories

Casey Lytle

'Responding to the Right'
Brief Replies to 25
Conservative Arguments

Nathan J. Robinson

'Lost City, Found Pyramid'
Understanding Alternative Archaeologies
and Pseudoscientific Practices

Edited by Jeb J. Card
and David S. Anderson

'Fake Believe'
Conspiracy Theories
in Aotearoa

Dylan Reeve

'Fear'
New Zealand's Hostile
Underworld of Extremists

Byron Clark

'Quantum Bullsh*t'
How to Ruin Your Life with
Advice from Quantum Physics

Chris Ferrie

'Fragile Science'
The Reality Behind
the Headlines

Robin Baker

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'Bullshit!'
TV Documentary Series

Penn & Teller

'Enemies of Reason'
TV Documentary, 2 Episodes

Richard Dawkins

'Mythbusters'
TV Documentary Series

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman

'Naked Science'
TV Documentary Series

'World's Greatest Hoaxes'
Secrets Finally Revealed

TV Documentary

'Secrets of Psychics Revealed'
TV Documentary

'The Business of Scams'
TV Documentary

'Search for the Loch Ness Monster'
TV Documentary

Steve Leonard

'The Diana Conspiracy'
TV Documentary

'Who Killed Diana?'
TV Documentary

'Conspiracy Theories'
Uncovering the Facts Behind
the Myths of Sept 11 2001
TV Documentary

The Fifth Estate

'The Truth Behind the Moon Landings'
TV Documentary

'Do You Believe in the Paranormal?'
TV Documentary

'The Nostradamus Effect'
TV Documentary

Is it Real?

'UFOs & Aliens'
Search for the Truth

TV Documentary, 3 Episodes

'Healer or Hoax?'
John of God

TV Documentary

'Extraterrestrials'
TV Documentary, 2 Episodes

'Roswell UFO'
Best Evidence

TV Documentary

'Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends'
Aliens

TV Documentary

'Did Aliens Build the Pyramids?'
The World's Strangest UFO Stories

TV Documentary

'The Mentalist'
TV Detective Series

Simon Baker, Robin Tunney

'Scooby Doo, Where Are You!'

Kids' TV Animated Comedy Series

'The Girl with the X-Ray Eyes'
Natasha Demkina
TV Documentary

Richard Wiseman

'South Park'
TV Animated Comedy Series

Trey Parker, Matt Stone

'Can We Believe The Science?'
TV Documentary, 4 Episodes

Professor Lesley Regan

'The Truth About Healthy Eating'
BBC TV Documentary

Fiona Phillips

'Elementary'
TV Detective Series

Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu

'Full Frontal'
with Samantha Bee

American News Comedy Series

'Leap of Faith'
Movie, Comedy

Steve Martin, Debra Winger

'Trust Me, I'm a Doctor'
TV Documentary Series

Michael Mosley

'Going Clear'
Scientology and the
Prison of Belief

TV Documentary

'In the Shadow of the Moon'
TV Documentary

David Sington (Dir)

'Denial'
Movie, Historical Drama

Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson

'Meet the Censors'
TV Documentary

Havard Fossum (Dir)

'After Truth'
Disinformation and the
Cost of Fake News
TV Documentary

Andrew Rossi (Dir)

'The Brainwashing of My Dad'
The Truth Behind the
Right-Wing Media Machine
TV Documentary

Jen Senko (Dir)

'Attack of the Hollywood Cliches!'
TV Documentary, Comedy

Rob Lowe

'Deleted Scenes of Women in
Disaster Movies Written by Men'
Short Comedy Sketch
(Click to view)

Dara Laine

'The Anti-Vax Conspiracy'
TV Documentary

Colette Camden

'Unvaccinated'
Fearing the Covid-19 Vaccine
TV Documentary

Hannah Fry

'The Big Bang Theory'
TV Comedy Series

Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco,
Johnny Galecki

'Daria'
TV Animated Comedy Series

Tracy Grandstaff, Wendy Hoopes

'Don't Look Up'
Movie, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio,
Meryl Streep

'Fire and Fury'
Who's Driving a Violent,
Misinformed NZ — and Why?
TV Documentary
(Click to view)

Toby Longbottom (Dir)

'Science Friction'
The Misrepresentation of Scientists
in TV Documentaries
TV Documentary
(Click to view)

Emery Emery (Dir)

'(Dis)Honesty'
The Truth About Lies
TV Documentary

Yael Melamede (Dir)

'An Honest Liar'
The Life & Career of a Magician
Turned Scientific Skeptic
TV Documentary

James Randi

'Snap Decision'
A Mother Arrested Against All Reason
Movie, Historical Drama

Mare Winningham, Felicity Huffman

The Real "CSI"
Can We Trust
Forensic Evidence?
TV Documentary

Andres Cediel (Dir)

'Bill Nye:
Science Guy'
TV Documentary

David Alvarado,
Jason Sussberg (Dir)

'Merchants of Doubt'
Public Relations Tactics
to Create Public Doubt
TV Documentary

Robert Kenner (Dir)

'Nuclear Now'
Moving to Nuclear Power to
Address Climate Change
TV Documentary

Oliver Stone (Dir)

'Behind the Curve'
Exposing the Flat Earth
Conspiracy Theorists
TV Documentary

Daniel J. Clark (Dir)

'The Cult of Conspiracy
QAnon'
TV Documentary

Ben Zand (Dir)

'Web of Chaos'
The World of Disinformation

Justin Pemberton (Dir)

'Fake News'
A True History
TV Documentary

Ian Hislop

'Ancient Aliens Debunked'
Debunking the History Channel
series 'Ancient Aliens'
TV Documentary

Chris White (Dir)

'Smallfoot'
Movie, Comedy

Channing Tatum, James Corden,
Zendaya

'Velma'
TV Animated Comedy Series

Mindy Kaling, Constance Wu

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