Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Supersition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer, Stephen Jay Gould

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Supersition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Michael Shermer, Stephen Jay Gould

306 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology science informative slow-paced
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In Why People Believe Weird Things, science historian Michael Shermer explores the very human reasons we find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. The editor of Skeptic magazine and the director of the Skeptics Soci...

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