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Why People Believe Weird Things

Why People Believe Weird Things

Pseudoscience, Superstition and Other Confusions of Our Time

by Michael Shermer
Paperback
Publication Date: 10/09/2007

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Why in an age of scientific enlightenment, do people seem to be more impressionable than ever? Why do so many believe in mind reading, past-life regression, extraterrestrial abduction and ghosts? What is behind the rewriting of science through Creationism and of history through Holocaust denial? Michael Shermer takes on contemporary superstitions and prejudices, exploring the human reasons why we are drawn to conspiracy theories and cults. Yet, he also exposes the more sinister side of wishful thinking, the consequences of the recovered memory movement, satanic rituals and ideologies of racial superiority. He confronts those who take advantage of people's gullibility to advance their own agenda, corrupting the scientific process in support of their own non-scientific belief systems.
ISBN:
9780285638037
9780285638037
Category:
Intelligence & reasoning
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
10-09-2007
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
384
Dimensions (mm):
216x135x29mm
Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer is the Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University.

He is the author of The Moral Arc, The Believing Brain, and many other bestselling titles.

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