(Disclaimer: I am no professional. Ran a Google search and found this just now. Listing these implies no endorsement on the part of Cult Education website or the Ross Insitute. Corboy)
If interested in purchasing books, a good way to begin is to go to bookfinder(dot)com and compare prices and shipping.
Meanwhile, one can request an item via interlibrary loan.
An important book:
Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology: [Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, Jeffrey M. Lohr] ...
www.amazon.com/Science-Pseudoscience...Lilienfeld/.../1593850700 - 339k - Cached - Similar pages
Crazy Therapies
Margaret Singer Ph.D and Janja Lalitch, 1996
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Institute for Science in Medicine
Home Page--Institute for Science in Medicine
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www.scienceinmedicine.org]
Welcome!
ISM is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting high standards of science in all areas of medicine and public health.
ISM is organized as a policy institute and “think tank,” comprised of health care professionals, scientists, and researchers in many fields who agree that the best science available should be used to determine health policy and to establish a standard of care that both protects and promotes the public health.
ISM opposes policies which erode a science-based standard of care and thereby significantly expose the public to fraudulent, worthless, or harmful medical practices and products.
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ISM Fellows — Lilienfeld - Institute for Science in Medicine
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And...a voice from the other side. The 'empirically-validated' treatments movement
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"There are, thus, some ardent clinical scientists (e.g., McFall and Lilienfeld) who appear to subscribe scientistic faith, and believe that the superiority of scientific approach is so marked that other approaches should be excluded. Since this is a matter of faith rather than reason, arguments would seem to be pointless."
Corboy note: I did not detect any whiff of ardent emotion when reading Lilienfeld and Lohr's book.
"Scientistic faith"?
Defintion of straw man fallacy
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"The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" has the following pattern:
Person A has position X.
Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X).
Person B attacks position Y.
Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed.
This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because attacking a distorted version of a position simply does not constitute an attack on the position itself. One might as well expect an attack on a poor drawing of a person to hurt the person. "