JREF is pleased to announce the final six volumes of the book series it is publishing on Science-Based Medicine.

In cooperation with the Science-Based Medicine blog, which is an invaluable source of expert information on all manner of medical topics, JREF is publishing a number of books on the topic. Led by executive editor Dr. Steven Novella, who heads JREF’s Science-Based Medicine Project, the blog’s team of writers regularly shine the light of good science on spurious health claims, and these new books anthologize their best writing on issues ranging from vaccines and naturopathy to homeopathy and nutritional supplements. Their science-based and skeptical treatment of these issues are of interest to skeptics, non-skeptics, and educated medical consumers alike.

Contributors to the book series include Dr. David Gorski, Dr. Harriet Hall, Dr. Mark Crislip, Dr. Kimball Atwood, Dr. Peter Lipson, Dr. Joseph Albietz, Dr. Scott Gavura, Dr. David Kroll, Dr. John M. Snyder, and Dr. Wallace Sampson, among many more science-based doctors and researchers.

The following six titles are now available on Kindle and Nook. iBooks versions are coming very soon:

Science-Based Medicine: Guide to Ethics, Law, Politics, Media and CAM
Kindle | Nook

Science-Based Medicine: Guide to Chiropractic
Kindle | Nook

Science-Based Medicine: Guide to Critical Thinking
Kindle | Nook

Science-Based Medicine: Guide to Cancer and CAM
Kindle | Nook

Science-Based Medicine: Guide to Acupuncture and "Eastern" Medicine
Kindle | Nook

The Best of Science-Based Medicine
Kindle | Nook

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In this workshop from The Amaz!ng Meeting 2012, Ray Hyman instructs participants on how to do “psychic” or character readings. They also perform readings on each other. The goal is not to increase the number of cold readers, but to show how easily a cold reading can convince people they have experienced the supernatural.

For more videos from past Amaz!ng Meetings, visit our YouTube channel. And to register for this summer's TAM 2013 in Las Vegas, click here.

Here is a rundown of the week in winners, losers and stinky fakery from the past week courtesy of Doubtful News.

There were some very oddball stories out this week. Let's take a look.

Here's a "not dead yet" story.   He's a winner!

Brooms are forbidden in airspace above 150 meters.