Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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ISBN: 0716733870 / Publisher: W H Freeman & Co, September 1998
Argues that the search for meaning and spiritual fulfillment often results in the embracing of extraordinary claims and controversial ideas
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In league with Carl Sagan, who touted the scientific method as baloney detector, and with foreword author Stephen Jay Gould (on "The Positive Power of Skepticism"), the Skeptics Society director draws on Skeptic magazine essays to deconstruct the pseudoscience of creationism, recovered memories, and UFOs as well as the pseudohistory spewed by Holocaust deniers. Cogita tute, think for yourself, despite a mind evolved to discern causal patterns lurking everywhere. Cloth edition reviewed July 1997. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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