Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia

This book is pitched as a guide to the world of pseudoscience. The book opens with high level and full contents listings, acknowledgements and a six page introductory essay. What is immediately notable is that despite the quasi‐scientific trappings of the work the introductory essay is written by “genuine historians and philosophers of science” rather than anyone with any scientific training, potentially skewing the viewpoints within.

In structure the text it is set out as an alphabetical list of 124 entries covering aspects from fields as diverse as cyptozoology and ufology. Entries, half of which run to three or four...