BOOKS PSEUDOSCIENCE

 

Arkowitz, Hal, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Facts and Fictions in Mental Health, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017

 

Atack, Jon, Let's sell these people A Piece of Blue Sky: Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2nd edition, 2013

 

Beres, Derek, Matthew Remski, Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat, PublicAffairs, 2023

 

Brisker, Mitch MD, Scientology The Big Lie: How I Made an Evil Cult Look Good, Brisker Inc; Large type / Large print edition, 2023

 

Edmans, Alex, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do about It, University of California Press, 2025

 

Ernst, Edzard, Max H Pittler, Oxford Handbook of Complementary Medicine (Oxford Handbooks Series) (Vinyl Bound), Oxford University Press, 2008

 

Ernst, Edzard, Simon Singh, Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine, W. W. Norton & Company, 2009

 

Feder, Kenneth L., Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology, Oxford University Press; 10th edition, 2019

 

Gale, Liz, Confessions of an Ex-Scientologist Pothead: Born in. Sparked up. Got out, Rustic & Resourceful LLC, 2023

 

Goldacre, Ben, Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprint edition, 2010

 

Gordin, Michael D., Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), Oxford University Press, 2023

 

Hassan, Steven, Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults, Freedom of Mind Press, 2015

 

Hawkins, Jefferson, Counterfeit Dreams : One Man's Journey into and Out of the World of Scientology, Hawkeye Publishing Co., 2010

 

Headley, Marc, Blown for Good - Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology (BFG Paperback), BFG Books Inc; BFG, 2010

 

Hill, Jenna Miscavige, Lisa Pulitzer, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape, William Morrow Paperbacks; Illustrated edition, 2013

 

Hines, Terence, The Psychology and Science of Pseudoscience, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2025

 

Hotez, Peter J., The Deadly Rise of Anti-science: A Scientist's Warning, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025

 

Hupp, Stephen, Pseudoscience in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Cambridge University Press, 2019

 

Hupp, Stephen, Pseudoscience in Therapy, Cambridge University Press, 2023

 

Kang, Lydia MD, Nate Pedersen, Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them, Workman Publishing Company, 2025

 

Kang, Lydia, Nate Pedersen, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, Workman Publishing Company, 2017

 

Kaufman, Allison B., James C. Kaufman, Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science, MIT Press; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Lilienfeld, Scott O. (Editor), Steven Jay Lynn (Editor), Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology, The Guilford Press; Second edition, 2014

 

Lilienfeld, Scott O., Steven Jay Lynn, 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

 

McIntyre, Lee, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason, The MIT Press, 2022

 

McIntyre, Lee, The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience (Mit Press), The MIT Press, 2020

 

Meerloo, Joost A.M., The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing, Martino Publishing, 2015

 

Merlan, Anna  Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power, Metropolitan Books; Reprint edition, 2020

 

Miller, Russell, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard, Silvertail Books, 2015

 

Nuccitelli, Dana, Climatology versus Pseudoscience: Exposing the Failed Predictions of Global Warming Skeptics, Praeger; Illustrated edition, 2015

 

Offit, Paul, DO YOU BELIEVE MAGIC, HarperPb; Reprint edition, 2014

 

Ortega, Tony, Paulette Cooper, Battlefield Scientology: Exposing L Ron Hubbard's Dangerous "Religion", CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

 

Ortega, Tony, Paulette Cooper, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

 

Owen, Chris, Ron The War Hero: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard's Calamitous Military Career, Silvertail Books, 2019

 

Park, Robert L., Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, Oxford University Press; Reprint edition, 2001

 

Pigliucci, Massimo, Maarten Boudry, Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem, University of Chicago Press; Illustrated edition, 2013

 

Prince, Jesse, The Expert Witness: My Life at the Top of Scientology, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

 

Prooijen, Jan-Willem, The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories (The Psychology of Everything), Routledge, 2018

 

Randi, James, Carl Sagan (Foreword), The Faith Healers, Prometheus Books; Updated edition, 1989

 

Randi, James, Isaac Asimov (Introduction), Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions, Prometheus Books, 1982

 

Randi, James, Kendrick Frazier, Flim-Flam!, Prometheus; Reprint edition, 2022

 

Reitman, Janet, Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion, HarperOne; Reprint edition, 2013

 

Remini, Leah, Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, Ballantine Books; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Rinder, Mike, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology, Gallery Books, 2024

 

Ritchie, Stuart, Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth, Metropolitan, 2021

 

Roozenbeek, Jon, Sander van der Linden, The Psychology of Misinformation (Contemporary Social Issues Series), Cambridge University Press; New edition, 2024

 

Schwarcz, Dr. Joe, A Grain of Salt: The Science and Pseudoscience of What We Eat , ECW Press; No edition, 2019

 

Schwarcz, Dr. Joe, Quack Quack: The Threat of Pseudoscience, ECW Press; No edition, 2022

 

Schwarcz, Dr. Joe, Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex: Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life, ECW Press; No edition, 2024

 

Scobee, Amy, SCIENTOLOGY Abuse At the Top, Scobee Publishing, 2010

 

Shelton, Chris, Scientology: A to Xenu: An Insider's Guide to What Scientology is All About, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

 

Shermer, Michael, Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024

 

Shermer, Michael, Stephen Jay Gould (Foreword), Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, Holt Paperbacks; Revised & enlarged edition, 2002

 

Shermer, Michael, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths, St. Martin's Griffin, 2012

 

Shermer, Michael, The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: 2 volumes, ABC-CLIO, 2002

 

Siegel, Aryeh, Transcendental Deception: Behind the TM curtain – bogus science, hidden agendas, and David Lynch’s campaign to push a million public school kids into Transcendental Meditation, Janreg Press, 2018

 

Spallino, Katherine, The Bad Cadet: Growing Up in the Church of Scientology's Sea Organization, Katherine Gladney, 2023

 

Steel, John Howard, Caged Lion: Joseph Pilates and His Legacy, Last Leaf Press; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Sweeney, John, The Church of Fear: Inside The Weird World of Scientology, Silvertail Books, 2013

 

van der Linden, Sander, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity, W. W. Norton & Company, 2024

 

Vyse, Stuart, The Uses of Delusion: Why It's Not Always Rational to Be Rational, Oxford University Press, 2022

 

Whorton, James C., Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America, Oxford University Press, 2004)

 

Wright, Lawrence, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Vintage; Illustrated edition, 2013

 

Yasmin, Seema MB BChir, Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021

 



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