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

Shermer, Michael; foreword by Stephen Jay Gould

ISBN 10: 0716733870 / ISBN 13: 9780716733874

Published by W.H. Freeman & Company, New York, 1997

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Used, trade paperback, with normal to light reading wear. The binding is tight and the interior is clean/unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
• Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0716733870
• ISBN 13: 9780716733874
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Trade Paperback Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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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