Author: Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner’s Notes of a Fringe Watcher: A Skeptic Looks at New Age Trends will be published by Prometheus Books this Spring.
Reincarnation Undressed
Reincarnation: A Critical Examination by Paul Edwards (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996) 313 pp. $28.95. Religious insanity is very common in the United States. —Alexis de Tocqueville, as quoted by Paul Edwards Because reincarnation is a fundamental doctrine of Hindu religions and most forms of Buddhism, there are probably more people around the world who …
The Incredible Flimflams of Margaret Rowen, Part 3: The Comic Pratfalls of Robert Reid
From time to time, as we all know, a sect appears in our midst announcing that the world will very soon come to an end. Generally, by some slight confusion or miscalculation, it is the sect that comes to an end. —G. K. Chesterton, in The Illustrated London News (September 24, 1927) In the first …