Je vous propose donc de faire le même exercice en français: fabriquons-nous notre propre "trousse de détection de calembredaines", celle que nous souhaiterions voir distribuer à l'école, celle que devrait consulter tout intervenant potentiel avant (! :-)) de poster sur le forum sceptique.
"THE TOP TEN (avec le nombre de votes):
**1. The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan 42
**2. Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer 29
3. Flim Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and Other Delusions by James Randi 21
**4. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner 10
5. How to Think About Weird Things by Theodore Schick and Lewis Vaughn 10
6. The Faith Healers by James Randi 8
7. How We Believe by Michael Shermer 8
8. The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher by Martin Gardner 6
**9. La Malmesure de l'Homme (The Mismeasure of Man) by Stephen Jay Gould 4
10. Voodoo Science: The Road From Foolishness to Fraud by Robert L. Park 4
Multiple nominations:
Asimov's Guide To The Bible by Isaac Asimov 3
Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith 3
Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking by Steve Allen 3
Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology by
Kenneth L. Feder 3
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff 3
Inevitable Illusions by Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds 3
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy & its Consequences by John Allen Paulos 3
Science on Trial by Douglas Futuyma 3
The Tower of Babel by Robert Pennock 3
** Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins 3
Why I am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell 3
The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski 2
Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition by Stuart A. Vyse 2
** Cosmos by Carl Sagan 2
Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural by James Randi 2
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay 2
Gospel Fictions by Randel Helms 2
The Health Robbers by Stephen Barrett 2
How to Think Straight About Psychology by Keith Stanovich 2
Influence: The Psychology Of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini 2
In Search Of The Light: The Adventures of a Parapsychologist by Susan Blackmore 2
Letters to the Earth by Mark Twain 2
Losing Faith In Faith by Dan Barker 2
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos 2
** The Night is Large: Collected Essays 1938-1995 by Martin Gardner 2
On the Wild Side by Martin Gardner 2
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard Feynman 2
Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus by Martin Gardner 2
Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science by Alan Cromer 2
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The Most Recommended Jr. Skeptic Books:
How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich 5
Just Pretend by Dan Barker 2
Maybe Yes, Maybe No by Dan Barker 2
Maybe Right, Maybe Wrong by Dan Barker 2
Alexander Fox and the Amazing Mind Reader
The Encyclopedia Brown Books by Donald J. Sobel
How Do You Know Its True? by Hy Ruklis
The Magic Detectives by Joe Nickell
UFOs by Philip Klass
The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
Wonder Workers by Joe Nickell
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Receiving One Recommendation (alphabetical by title):
Abusing Science by Philip Kitcher
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, 1795
Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to puzzle and delight by Martin Gardner
Aha! Insight by Martin Gardner
Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking by Leonard Zusne and Warren Jones
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstader
Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking by M. Neil Browne
The Astonishing Hypothesis by Francis Crick
The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
Begone Godmen by Dr. L. Abraham Kovoor
The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved by Larry Kusche
Bible Prophecy: Failure or Fulfillment? by Tim Callahan
Bible, Religion and Morality Vol. 1 & 2, by Steve Allen
Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan
** The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Can You Win? The Real Odds for Casino Gambling, Sports Betting, and Lotteries by Mike Orkin
The Case Against Creationism by Phillip Kitcher
Chicken Soup for the Damned Soul by Ed Babinski
Clear Thinking: A Practical Introduction by H. Ruchlis and S. Oddo
Cold Fusion: The Scientific Fiasco of the Century by John Huizenga
** Contact by Carl Sagan
The Copernican Revolution by Thomas Kuhn
The Corruption of Reality by John F. Schumaker
Critiques of God (edited) by Peter Angeles.
** Cults in America by Willa Appel
Darwin's Ghost by Steven Jones
Denying History by Michael Shermer
The Diseasing of America by Stanton Peele
The Divided Self by R.D. Laing
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Encounters of the Paranormal edited by Kendrick Frazier
The Encyclopedia of Bible Errancy by C. Dennis McKinsey
Encyclopedia of Evolution by Richard Milner
The End of Science by John Horgan
ESP: A Scientific Evaluation by C.E.M. Hansel
** Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
Evolution and The Myth of Creationism by Tim M. Berra
The Extinct Cognitive Christian by D. Boening
The Final Superstition by Joseph Daleiden
Finding Darwin=92s God by Kenneth Miller
Forgery In Christianity by Joseph Wheless, 1930
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: A Translation and Commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika by Jay L Garfield.
Galileo's Revenge by Peter William Huber
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker
Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadtler
The Golden Bough by James Frazer
Grammatical Man by Jeremy Campbell
Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness by Elliot S. Valenstein
House of Cards by Robyn Dawes
How to Play With Your Food by Penn and Teller
How to Watch TV News by Neil Postman
How to Win Every Argument (also pub. as The Art of Deception) by N. Capaldi
Hystories by Elaine Showalter
Is It God's Word? by Joseph Wheless, 1926
The Jesus Mysteries by Freke
Leaps of Faith by Nicholas Humphrey
Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life by Howard Kahane
The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations by Dietrich Dorner
Looking For a Miracle by Joe Nickell
** Madam Blavatsky's Baboon by Peter Washington
Madness on the Couch by Edward Dolnick
The Magic Animal by Philip Wylie
Magic or Medicine?: An Investigation of Healing and Healers by R. Buckman and K. Sabbagh
A Magician Among the Spiritualists by Harry Houdini
Making Us Crazy--DSM: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders by Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk
Man and His Gods by Homer W. Smith
The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Richard Feynman
The Mind of the Bible Believer by Edmund D. Cohen
Mind, Machines, and Evolution by James P. Horgan
* The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life by Jean Francois Revel, Matthieu Ricard, John Canti (Translator)
Mysterious Realms by Joe Nickell with John F. Fischer
The Natural History of Nonsense by Bergen B. Evans
Our Kind by Marvin Harris
The Passover Plot by Hugh Schonfield
Physiological Bases of God Beliefs by Dr. Michael Persinger
Religion Without Revelation by Julian Huxley
The Mask of Nostradamus by James Randi
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity by Daniel J. Kevles
Nostradamus: The End of the Millennium by V.J. Hewitt and Peter Lorie
Not Necessarily the New Age by Martin Gardner
** L'origine des Espèces (The Origin of Species) by Charles Darwin
Paradigms Lost by John L. Casti
Pseudoscience and the Paranormal by Terence Hines
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Mackiel
Readings in the Philosophical Problems in Parapsychology, ed. by Antony Flew
The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverrup by Philip Klass
Reason and Culture by Ernest Gellner
The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov
Robert G Ingersoll--44 Lectures Complete.
Satanic Panic by Victor Frank
The Satiricon: Creationism Bashed by Robert S. Dietz
Saving the Bible from Fundamentalism by John Shelby Spong
Science and Pseudoscience by Terence Hines
Science Matters by Robert M. Hazen and James Trefil
Science, Reason, and Anthropology: A Guide to Critical Thinking by James Lett
Secrets of the Supernatural by Joe Nickell and John F. Fischer
** Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Skeptics and True Believers by Chet Raymo
The Skeptics Annotated Bible
* Skeptics Dictionary by Bob Carroll--available only on the internet.
The Social Construction of Reality by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity by Bruce Bawer
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
Summer of the Gods by Edward J. Larson
Surely You're Joking by Richard Feynman
Tales of the Rational: Skeptical Essays About Nature and Science by Massimo Pigliucci
Teaching Thinking by E. De Bono
Think to Win: The Power of Logic in Everyday Life by S. Cannavo
Thinking Critically About New Age Ideas by William Gray
Trancendental Temptation by Paul Kurtz
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
The Truth about Uri Geller by James Randi
Twenty Questions by G. Lee Bowie
The Undiscovered Mind by John Horgan
The Untamed Tongue, also by Thomas Szasz
** An Urchin in the Storm by S.J. Gould
The Web of Belief by W.V. Quine and J. S. Ullian
What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard Feynman
What If Everything You Always Knew About AIDS Was Wrong? by Christine Maggiore
What is This Thing Called Science? by A. F. Chalmers
Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliot Friedman
Who Wrote the Gospels? by Randel Helms
Why Christianity must Change or Die by John Shelby Spong
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