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The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience
Cover of the first edition
EditorsMichael Shermer
Pat Linse
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPseudoscience
PublisherABC-CLIO
Publication date
November 14, 2002
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages903
ISBN1576076539
OCLC50155642
Dewey Decimal
503 21
LC ClassQ172.5.P77 S54 2002
Preceded byHow We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science 
Followed byDenying History 

The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience is a two-volume collection of articles that discuss the Skeptics Society's scientific findings of investigations into pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The editor, Michael Shermer, director of the Skeptics Society, has compiled articles originally published in Skeptic magazine with some conceptual overviews and historical documents to create this encyclopedia. It was published by ABC-CLIO in 2002.

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