Hoaxes, myths, and manias : why we need critical thinking
Publication Information
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003.
Physical Description
229 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Contents
- pt. 1. The broad picture
- 1. Why develop a critical eye
- pt. 2. The American picture
- 2. Was there really a Martian panic in 1938
- 3. The Roswell "flying saucer" crash of 1947
- 4. The Mad Gasser of Mattoon : press creation of an imaginary criminal
- 5. New England's great airship hoax
- pt. 3. The cross-cultural picture
- 6. What is normal
- 7. Latah : strange mental disorder or exotic custom
- 8. Exploring tolerance : religious devoutness or bizarre ritual
- 9. Genital-shrinking scares
- pt. 4. The historical picture
- 10. The dancing mania of the middle ages
- 11. The jumping Frenchmen of Maine
- 12. The birthplace of the flying saucer
- 13. England's black helicopters
- 14. India' monkey man mania
- 15. How to recognize mass delusions.