recommend book⇒Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition and Other Confusions of Our Time | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
by | Michael Shermer | 978-0-8050-7089-7 | paperback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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birth | 1954-09-08 age:63 | 978-0-7167-3090-3 | hardcover | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
publisher | Holt | 978-1-4299-9676-1 | eBook | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
published | 2002-09-01 | 978-1-55927-513-2 | audio | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
B004TNH6ME | kindle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The title is a bit of a misnomer. It is mostly about the kooky things people believe and why those beliefs are not true, not why people believe them. People believe in quantum mechanics and relativity, which are far weirder than any alien abduction or holocaust denial. That is not what the book is about. It about people believing in things for which there is almost no evidence and for which there is a ton of counter-evidence. It covers Holocaust denial and creationism in considerable detail and has chapters on abductions, Satanism, Afrocentrism, near-death experiences, Ayn Randian positivism and psychics. His five reasons people hold crank beliefs are:
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