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

Michael Shermer

349 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology science informative slow-paced

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"(A) splendid book." Vanity FairWhy do smart people believe weird things?Why do so many people believe in mind reading, past-life regression therapy, extra-terrestrial abduction and ghosts? What is behind the rise of 'scientific creationism' and H...

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