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A review by froggin_around_
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
2.0
I read this book bevause I wanted to read something on mass psychology and this was recommended to me, but I should've digged a bit better about the book and the author
not what I was looking for, I was looking more for an actual psychological description of these sort of mass phenomena, not a bunch of stories and chapters on how to debate an evolution denier/or a Holocaust denier. the only thing I learned from this book is that there are Holocaust deniers which was baffling, but apart from him saying multiple times about how surprisingly eloquent these people were on conversation, I got zero psychological insight
Shermer has enlightened centrist vibes throughout the book when he tries to write "objectively" and is a self proclaimed libertarian, but he's talking more complimentary about Ayn Rand's philosophy than Marx's so we know where he actually stands (I bet it's some form of anarcho-capitalism) + to top it off, lots transphobia on social media
I wish I read something else lol
not what I was looking for, I was looking more for an actual psychological description of these sort of mass phenomena, not a bunch of stories and chapters on how to debate an evolution denier/or a Holocaust denier. the only thing I learned from this book is that there are Holocaust deniers which was baffling, but apart from him saying multiple times about how surprisingly eloquent these people were on conversation, I got zero psychological insight
Shermer has enlightened centrist vibes throughout the book when he tries to write "objectively" and is a self proclaimed libertarian, but he's talking more complimentary about Ayn Rand's philosophy than Marx's so we know where he actually stands (I bet it's some form of anarcho-capitalism) + to top it off, lots transphobia on social media
I wish I read something else lol