 | The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.41 Referenced by the listener and confirmed by Dr. Novella as a good "first book."
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 | Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi
Buy new: $15.63 / Used from: $5.00 Recommended by Evan Berstein.
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 | The Psychic Mafia by M. Lamar Keene
Buy used from: $27.50 Recommended by Rebecca Watson.
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 | Pseudoscience and the Paranormal by Terence Hines
Buy new: $15.82 / Used from: $9.65 Recommended by Bob Novella.
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 | How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich
Buy new: $13.64 / Used from: $4.75 Recommended by Dr. Novella.
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 | Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things by Richard Wiseman
Buy used from: $2.18 Recommended by Rebecca Watson.
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 | Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution 24 Lectures on 12 CDs (Modern Physics for Non-Scientists) by Richard Wolfson
Buy used from: $24.75 Audio program; recommended by Bob Novella. Transcripts and other media also available.
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 | Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless by Steve Salerno
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $2.15 Recommended by Evan Bernstein.
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 | Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.30 Recommended by Rebecca Watson.
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 | Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design by Michael Shermer
Buy new: $10.92 / Used from: $2.94 Recommended by Evan Bernstein.
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 | Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $6.00 Recommended by Dr. Novella as an excellent primer or introduction to critical thinking.
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 | A Physicist's Guide to Skepticism: Applying Laws of Physics to Faster-Than-Light Travel, Psychic Phenomena, Telepathy, Time Travel, UFOs, and Other Pseudoscientific Claims by Milton A. Rothman
Buy new: $37.98 / Used from: $4.00 Recommended by Bob Novella. Outlines what science has to say on recurring pseudo-scientific topics.
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 | Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $4.94 Recommended by Rebecca Watson. Ronson is also featured on Public Radio and has material that can be found on YouTube.
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 | Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $8.50 Not an "official" recommendation on the referenced show, but Dr. Novella mentioned this as an aside to gain a "believer's" perspective.
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 | Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus by Martin Gardner
Buy new: $24.28 / Used from: $3.50 Recommended by Dr. Novella. Also added that anything by Martin Gardner would be beneficial.
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 | An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural by James Randi
Buy used from: $14.86 Recommended by Evan Bernstein. Also available online at randi.org
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 | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $3.00 Recommended by Rebecca Watson.
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 | Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.17 Recommended by Rebecca Watson.
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 | Crime Science: Methods of Forensic Detection by Joe Nickell
Buy new: $17.15 / Used from: $4.50 Recommended by Dr. Novella; also recommends anything by the author.
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 | Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" by Philip C. Plait
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.08 Recommended by Rebecca Watson.
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 | The Triumph of Evolution: and the Failure of Creationism by Niles Eldredge
Buy used from: $1.69 Recommended by Dr. Novella.
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 | The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth, Second Edition
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $9.99 Mentioned that anything by Stephen Jay Gould would be recommended. This title was a random pick.
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 | The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $11.02 / Used from: $3.45 Recommended by Rebecca Watson.
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 | The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.39 Supplementary recommendation by panel.
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 | Case Closed by Gerald Posner
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $2.99 Supplementary recommendation by panel.
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 | Skeptic
Buy new: $30.00 Magazine recommendation by group.
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 | Skeptical Inquirer
Buy new: $35.00 Magazine recommendation by group.
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 | Scientific American
Buy new: $24.97 Magazine recommendation by group.
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