The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions

Robert Todd Carroll's reference work assesses paranormal and pseudoscientific claims from an explicitly skeptical evaluative position, and this record states that stance plainly rather than presenting the book as neutral description: it is cited here specifically for entries such as Reichenbach's odic force and Kirlian photography and bioplasma theory, where its documented purpose is evaluating a specific claim's evidentiary support rather than simply describing what a tradition believes. Use it for this dictionary's own skeptical assessment of a specific paranormal or pseudoscientific claim it addresses; it is an evaluative reference from a stated skeptical position, not a neutral descriptive account of what a tradition itself teaches, which needs a source from within that tradition instead.