Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time



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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time Michael Shermer ebook
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Page: 368
ISBN: 9780805070897


Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print, Why People Believe Weird Things debunks these nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons people find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. In an entirely new chapter, "Why Smart People Believe in Weird Things," Michael Shermer takes on science luminaries like physicist Frank Tippler and others, who hide their spiritual beliefs behind the trappings of science. Shermer, science historian and true crusader, also reveals the more dangerous side of such illogical thinking, including Holocaust denial, the recovered-memory movement, the satanic ritual abuse scare, and other modern crazes. Why People Believe Strange Things is an eye-opening resource for the most gullible among us and those who want to protect them. For the past five years, Skeptic magazine has been at the forefront of debunking beliefs that, at least according to its publisher, Michael Shermer, can't stand up to scientific inquiry. In Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, & Other Confusions of Our Time, Shermer collects pieces, some reworked for this provocative volume, from Skeptic. They cover the expected-UFO abductions, psychics-but also the less predictable, including the "unlikeliest cult" of Ayn Rand and the phenomenon of Holocaust-denial. Illustrations.

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