Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
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Why People Believe Weird Things
Summary
A survey of a range of irrationalisms, with explanations of their empirical and logical flaws. The book describes the differences between science and pseudo-science, and goes on to describe and critique popular contemporary irrationalisms, UFOs, Holocaust denial and Satanic cult conspiracies.
Why People Believe Weird Things Summary
Table of Contents
Foreword; prologue; science and skeptisim; pseudoscience and superstitions; evolution and creationism; history and pseudohistory; revolutionaries and heretics.
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GOR003269607
9780716730903
0716730901
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Macmillan Learning
19970315
294
N/A
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