By Georges Charpak Debunked!: ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience [Hardcover] Hardcover

I read the Dutch translation ('Magie van het Gezond Verstand - wetenschap, wonderen en paranormale verschijnselen verklaard').After reading this book you will be able to put supernatural claims to the test, and debunk many of them.They show how our eyes are easily fooled, how we are wired to see faces everywhere, causing us to see faces in the Twin Tower smoke, or in moldy patches.They show how we can easily be fooled by numbers, and how statistics can help us to see whether something is extraordinary. One astrologer predicted 169 eartquake dates of which 33 came true. Amazing! Or not? Co-author Boch shows this is exactly what pure chance predicts: amazingly less 'hits' would be more surprising!They go deeply into one example of a claim that the water in a tomb in France gets there in a supernatural way.The only part that disappointed me, and what made me give only 4 stars, was the opinion at the start and end. In their views for the coming century they show a too strong believe that every scientific development is always the best choice, which makes them trash critics of nuclear energy and gene-technology. They wrongly suppose that GMO's are always better for productivity. This is pure opinion, and stands in stark contrast to the rational approach in the rest of the book.All in all, despite of a bit popular language, I absolutely recommend this book.