Why People Believe Weird Things

Michael Shermer; Stephen Jay Gould, Foreward

ISBN 10: 0716733870 / ISBN 13: 9780716733874

Published by W H Freeman & Company, United States, 1997

About this Item

Book has light staining to the outer pages, else clean and tight with no marks or stamps.

Seller Inventory # 001295

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why People Believe Weird Things
• Publisher: W H Freeman & Company, United States
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0716733870
• ISBN 13: 9780716733874
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Lawrence Berzon
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non Fiction

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Synopsis

This work presents a down-to-earth and sometimes funny survey of a range of contemporary irrationalisms, and explains their empirical and logical flaws. It tackles a variety of topics including creationism, Holocaust denial, race and IQ, cults and alien abductions, and the author looks at the research behind the claims and discredits the pseudoscience involved.

Review

"This sparkling book romps over the range of science and anti-science."
--Jared Diamond, author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel"
"Splendid."
--"Vanity Fair"

This sparkling book romps over the range of science and anti-science. Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel

Splendid. "Vanity Fair""

This sparkling book romps over the range of science and anti-science. Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel

Splendid. Vanity Fair

"

"This sparkling book romps over the range of science and anti-science." --Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel

"Splendid." --Vanity Fair