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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 133
EAN: 9781567316704
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN: 0813122104
Label: The University Press of Kentucky
Manufacturer: The University Press of Kentucky
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: October 24, 2001
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Studio: The University Press of Kentucky
Editorial Review:
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"Joe Nickell is the subject of a feature article in the Jan. 6 issue of The New Yorker. Renowned skeptic Joe Nickell examines some of the world's most significant, perplexing, and enduring enigmas: spontaneous human combustion, hauntings, UFOs and alien abductions, stigmata, psychic detectives, legendary monsters, reincarnation, crop circles, and a host of other topics.
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I am fascinated with the paranormal. I don't like the extremists on either side. Joe Nickel should have been able to hit the spot quite easily, however, there were childish academic inconsistencies strewn throughout the book that left me feeling like I couldn't trust his scholarship. Out of the many many examples I will give you one that was typical of his errors; Chapter 16 'The Roswell Legend'. Nickel asserts, "The book claims that the U.S. government used alien technology to win the Cold War (Thurmond ... Read More
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I find it hard to believe that this book has gotten so many negative reviews, and thus such a low average. I really don't think it deserves it. I found this a competent, readable book that provided a lot of answers for things I may have always wondered about, or had never even known of before. I appreciated that each topic only had a few (anywhere from three to fifteen or so) pages on the subject, so that if it was something I wasn't particularly interested in, I knew soon enough I'd be past it and on ... Read More
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It's fine to be a believer; it's fine to be a skeptic. However, it is not fine to settle so staunchly on your viewpoint that all your conclusions are foregone--while representing to your readers that you undertake to proffer a balanced treatment. Nickell's treatment is in no wise balanced. One can say accurately of him, but generally of his entire organization (Committee for the 'Scientific' Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) that they have no interest whatsoever in disclosing any facts that might ... Read More
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Nickell trys to call himself a skeptic but he is not at all, in fact he is an all out non believer who even when he has no evidence that things are a hoax or natural he deems them so based on his past experiences. His writing often makes fun of others and he even uses his books to ridicule and degrade other writers in the field which I percieve to be jealousy on his part.
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Over the years, Joe Nickell of skeptic organization CSICOP has written or co-written a large amount of books, and several of them are a lot like Real X-Files: large anthologies where numerous paranormal and mysterious cases are described and investigated, cases that Nickell has investigated personally and in most cases, at least according to himself, has solved. (And several of these books have appeared on UFO-Sweden's review sections.)
One thins is for sure: Nickell's books are always very educational. ... Read More
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