Weird earth : debunking strange ideas about our planet /
Prothero, Donald R.
Weird earth : debunking strange ideas about our planet / Donald R. Prothero. - 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Cover -- weird earth -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Science and Critical Thinking -- 2 The Flat Earth -- 3 Ptolemy Revisited -- 4 The Hollow Earth -- 5 Is the Earth Expanding? -- 6 Did We Really Land on the Moon? -- 7 Magnetic Myths -- 8 Earth-Shaking Myths -- 9 Quacks and Quakes -- 10 Was There a Great Flood? -- 11 Are Dinosaurs Faked? -- 12 Is the Earth Only Six Thousand Years Old? -- 13 Mysteries of Mount Shasta -- 14 The Myth of Atlantis -- 15 The Mysterious Ley Lines -- 16 Crystal Con Artists -- 17 Water Witching 18 Mysterious Earth: Why People Want to Believe Weird Things -- Notes -- For Further Reading -- Index
1684350611 9781684350612
Conspiracy theories.
Curiosities and wonders.
Geology.
QE53 / .P76 2020
550
Weird earth : debunking strange ideas about our planet / Donald R. Prothero. - 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Cover -- weird earth -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Science and Critical Thinking -- 2 The Flat Earth -- 3 Ptolemy Revisited -- 4 The Hollow Earth -- 5 Is the Earth Expanding? -- 6 Did We Really Land on the Moon? -- 7 Magnetic Myths -- 8 Earth-Shaking Myths -- 9 Quacks and Quakes -- 10 Was There a Great Flood? -- 11 Are Dinosaurs Faked? -- 12 Is the Earth Only Six Thousand Years Old? -- 13 Mysteries of Mount Shasta -- 14 The Myth of Atlantis -- 15 The Mysterious Ley Lines -- 16 Crystal Con Artists -- 17 Water Witching 18 Mysterious Earth: Why People Want to Believe Weird Things -- Notes -- For Further Reading -- Index
1684350611 9781684350612
Conspiracy theories.
Curiosities and wonders.
Geology.
QE53 / .P76 2020
550