Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and other Confusions of our Time by Michael Shermer, Stephen Jay Gould

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and other Confusions of our Time

Michael Shermer, Stephen Jay Gould

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nonfiction philosophy psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Why do so many people believe in mind reading, past-life regression therapy, abductions by extraterrestrials, and ghosts? What has led to the rise of "scientific creationism" and the belief that the Holocaust never happened? Why, in this age of su...

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