Book you wish were written?

[Penanggalen]

What book do you wish were written? It could be on general skepticism or a specific topic like the afterlife, homeopathy, agnosticism, UFO's, etc. Is there some book you always wanted to read, but could never find because nobody tackled the issue in depth? I'm curious.

-Justin

[ExMinister]

Current scientific understanding of sleep paralysis, what really causes it, and how to make it stop.

In-depth cross-cultural comparison of reports of near-death experiences, not written from a woo standpoint but understandable to a layperson.

How to raise kids who love to clean, never argue and don't cost a lot of money to feed and clothe.

[Moochie]

The Book Of Why?


M.

[Storm Warning]

The Book Of Why?


M.
Why? :D

[Fnord]

"A Man's Guide To Women"

... with an extended chapter on "What She Means When She Says..."

[Fnord]

"The Gospel According To Jesus"

... with illustrations by the author, and in His own handwriting.

[Soapy Sam]

Computers Really Explained.

The perfectly indexed book that answers all my specific questions without 1500 pages of stuff I either know or don't need to.
This book will be released in the USA at $21.99 and will sell in the UK for it's actual exchange rate price of £11.00
A companion volume will explain all of mathematics, in clear English, without equations or resort to diagrams.

[Brendy]

"Tomorrow's Winning Lottery Numbers"

[dahduh]

"A Man's Guide To Women"

... with an extended chapter on "What She Means When She Says..."

Someone actually gave me a book entitled "Everything men know about women."

I consisted of two hundred blank pages.

[GT/CS]

This says it all

[krelnik]

Current scientific understanding of sleep paralysis, what really causes it, and how to make it stop.

In-depth cross-cultural comparison of reports of near-death experiences, not written from a woo standpoint but understandable to a layperson.

I think you're on to something there. A skeptical book that focused on little known (by the general public) neurological and physiological aspects of the human body that have skeptical implications, might be a great read. And if you pitched it right, it might hit a much larger audience than the typical skeptical book.

Topics would include:

Sleep paralysis
Out-of-body experiences
Pareidolia (http://skepdic.com/pareidol.html)
Synthaesthesia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia)
Optical illusions
Entoptic phenomenon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoptic_phenomenon)
Plasticity of memory

I guess this does overlap what books like Shermer's "Why People Believe Weird Things" cover. But again, I think this could be done in a way that would hit a different audience than Shermer hits.

It could be titled: How Your Brain Betrays You

[kosai]

I would like to see a book which does a very in depth explanation (and further study) of the ideomotor effect.. Things which I would like to see covered would be:

Ouija Boards
Pendulums
Dowsing Rods
Muscle Reading/Hellströmism
Applied kinesiology
Automatic writing
Toftness Radiation Detector
Table Tilting
etc.

[Moochie]

What book do you wish were written? It could be on general skepticism or a specific topic like the afterlife, homeopathy, agnosticism, UFO's, etc. Is there some book you always wanted to read, but could never find because nobody tackled the issue in depth? I'm curious.

-Justin

My book. :(

M.

[ExMinister]

I think you're on to something there. A skeptical book that focused on little known (by the general public) neurological and physiological aspects of the human body that have skeptical implications, might be a great read. And if you pitched it right, it might hit a much larger audience than the typical skeptical book.

Topics would include:

Sleep paralysis
Out-of-body experiences
Pareidolia (http://skepdic.com/pareidol.html)
Synthaesthesia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia)
Optical illusions
Entoptic phenomenon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoptic_phenomenon)
Plasticity of memory

I guess this does overlap what books like Shermer's "Why People Believe Weird Things" cover. But again, I think this could be done in a way that would hit a different audience than Shermer hits.

It could be titled: How Your Brain Betrays You

That's exactly what I'm thinking. Shermer's How We Believe discusses some of this, too. I know a lot of people who have believed "weird" things because they've had "weird" experiences, myself included.

[Moochie]

That's exactly what I'm thinking. Shermer's How We Believe discusses some of this, too. I know a lot of people who have believed "weird" things because they've had "weird" experiences, myself included.

You've a weird experience? No!

Wanna share?

M.

[ExMinister]

You've a weird experience? No!

Wanna share?

M.

Well, where should I start: When I was little I could levitate. I've been abducted by aliens and I have an alien baby. I trance channel the spirit of Einstein, and I talk to dead people. :eek:

So now my secret is out!

(Actually, most of my weird experiences it turns out are probably just related to sleep paralysis/lucid dreaming, which I've read similar accounts of on other threads here.) Pretty boring. No aliens involved. I can't channel. I can't even pass a "guess what color I'm thinking about" test. Oh well.

How about you?

[Ron_Tomkins]

I wish someone wrote a book about all the insanaly fallacious arguments made in some of these threads.... kinda like a collection.

Hey, they made a printed book out of the www.grouphug.us confessions, so why not?

[Moochie]

Well, where should I start: When I was little I could levitate. I've been abducted by aliens and I have an alien baby. I trance channel the spirit of Einstein, and I talk to dead people. :eek:

So now my secret is out!

(Actually, most of my weird experiences it turns out are probably just related to sleep paralysis/lucid dreaming, which I've read similar accounts of on other threads here.) Pretty boring. No aliens involved. I can't channel. I can't even pass a "guess what color I'm thinking about" test. Oh well.

How about you?

Oh, nothing but boring mundaneness here. Nothing under my hat, not even hair...

M.

[ravdin]

The Da Vinci Code. Not because I liked the book, but because it sold a lot of copies.

Yes, I am a sellout.