Weird Earth : Debunking Strange Ideas about Our Planet /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prothero, Donald R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Red Lightning Books, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mind and body therapies
Conspiracy theories.
Curiosities and wonders.
Geology.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Unexplained Phenomena.
Earth (Planet)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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