Weird earth : debunking strange ideas about our planet /
Applying his extensive scientific knowledge, Prothero corrects misinformation that con artists and quacks use to hoodwink others about geology--hollow earth, expanding earth, and bizarre earthquakes--and mystical and paranormal happenings--healing crystals, alien landings, and the gates of hell. By...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Red Lightning Books,
[2020]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Science and critical thinking
- The flat earth
- Ptolemy revisited
- The hollow earth
- Is the earth expanding?
- Did we really land on the Moon?
- Magnetic myths
- Earth-shaking myths
- Quacks and quakes
- Was there a great flood?
- Are dinosaurs faked?
- Is the earth only six thousand years old?
- Mysteries of Mount Shasta
- The myth of Atlantis
- The mysterious ley lines
- Crystal con artists
- Water witching
- Mysterious earth: why people want to believe weird things