Why People Believe Weird Things (豆瓣)

作者: Michael Shermer
出版社: Holt Paperbacks
副标题: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
出版年: 2002-9-1
页数: 384
定价: USD 17.99
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780805070897

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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 v...

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迈克儿·舍默是《怀疑》杂志的创始人，“怀疑者协会”的会长，月刊《科学美国人》的专栏作家。他经常在加州理工学院主办有关怀疑论的系列演讲，参与制作了电视系列剧《福克斯一家》和《探索未知的世界》。史蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德说：“作为美国重要的怀疑论团体的领导，在弘扬怀疑主义精神的运动中实力雄厚的社会活动家和作家，迈克儿·舍默是美国公众生活中的一个重要人物。”

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一叶知秋，一章知劣

一叶知秋，一章知劣 ——从《人们为什么相信一些稀奇古怪的东西》第八章看它的翻译质量《人们为什么相信一些稀奇古怪的东西》，卢明君译，林磊校，湖南教育出版社，2001年12月许多外文书翻译成中文的时候，出于文学或艺术等目的，往往不照搬原书名，而是在不影响主旨的情况... (展开)

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Bob 2009-08-09 15:18:04 湖南教育出版社2002版

让我们一起Weird！

终于啃掉《人为什么相信一些稀奇古怪的东西》！得说，较之于作者麦克尔·舍默（Michael Shermer）严谨而絮叨的笔法，我的阅读体验并不算好。得说，作为一本优秀的科普名著翻译作品，中国人并不关心他所提的“稀奇古怪”。比如，遭遇外星人的感受，老外在上世纪40年代就玩的热火... (展开)

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BlueBoxKit 2013-03-21 16:00:35 湖南教育出版社2002版

翻译是硬伤

得了，把两位译者曝光一下。卢明君，南京大学外国语学院英美文学硕士，研究方向为文学翻译。在校期间发表过《论翻译的得体》、《翻译中的意境重建》和《翻译中的目的读者观》等论文。与人合译、编译《凶网》等书100多万字。林磊，香港大学一等荣誉学士，加拿大英属哥伦比亚大... (展开)

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笔记。 A sizable literature exists on the scientific method, but there is little consensus among authors. This does not mean that scientists do not know what they are doing. Doing and explaining may be two different things. However, scientists agree that t... (展开)

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一一 2016-11-06 23:24:10 湖南教育出版社2002版

怀疑

摘抄：　　具有怀疑精神是一种美德，是对“怀疑论者”一词的本意所做的深刻且带有反思意味的探索。　　不管是从智力还是道德的角度来看，人们对怀疑论的需要都来自于帕斯卡勒那个著名的隐语，即人类是“能够思维的芦苇”。也就是说，人类既高居独一无二的显赫地位，又是那么... (展开)

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"One of the characteristics that sets man apart from all the other animals (and animal he indubitably is) is a need for knowledge for its own sake."(Vincent Dethier, 1962, pp. 118-119) On the most basic level ,we must think to remain alive. To think is the most essential human characteristic. Over three centuries ago, the French mathematician and philosopher RenĂŠ Descartes, after one o...
2012-06-20 16:33

"One of the characteristics that sets man apart from all the other animals (and animal he indubitably is) is a need for knowledge for its own sake."
(Vincent Dethier, 1962, pp. 118-119)
On the most basic level ,we must think to remain alive. To think is the most essential human characteristic. Over three centuries ago, the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes, after one of the most thorough and skeptical purges in intellectual history, concluded that he knew one thing for certain:"Cogito ergo sum—I think therefore I am." But to be human is to think. Toreverse Descartes,"Sum ergo cogito—I am therefore I think"

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Balance can be found by answering a few basic questions: What is the quality of the evidence for the claim? What are the background and credentials of the person making the claim? Does the thing work as claimed?
2012-06-20 16:21

Balance can be found by answering a few basic questions: What is the quality of the evidence for the claim? What are the background and credentials of the person making the claim? Does the thing work as claimed?

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Humans evolved the ability to seek and find connections between things and events in the environment (snakes with rattles should be avoided), and those who made the best connections left behind the most offspring. We are their descendants. The problem is that causal thinking is not infallible. We make connections whether they are there or not. These misidentifications come in two varieties: false ...
2012-06-20 15:19

Humans evolved the ability to seek and find connections between things and events in the environment (snakes with rattles should be avoided), and those who made the best connections left behind the most offspring. We are their descendants. The problem is that causal thinking is not infallible. We make connections whether they are there or not. These misidentifications come in two varieties: false negatives get you killed (snakes with rattles are okay); false positives merely waste time and energy (a rain dance will end a drought). We are left with a legacy of false positives — hypnopompic hallucinations become ghosts or aliens; knocking noises in an empty house indicate spirits and poltergeists; shadows and lights in a tree become Virgin Mary; random mountain shadows on Mars are seen as a face constructed by aliens.The belief influences the perception. … Vague feelings and memories evoked through hypnosis and guided-imagery in therapy evolve into crystal-clear memories of childhood sexual abuse, even when no corroborating evidence exists.

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three tiers why people believe weird things:(1) because hope springs eternal;(2) because thinking can go wrong in general ways;(3) because thinking can go wrong in particular ways.
2012-06-20 15:13

three tiers why people believe weird things:(1) because hope springs eternal;(2) because thinking can go wrong in general ways;(3) because thinking can go wrong in particular ways.

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Life is contingent and filled with uncertainties, the most frightening of which is the manner, time, and place of our own demise.Under the pressure of reality, we become credulous. We seek reassuring certainties from fortune-tellers and palm-readers, astrologers and psychics. Our critical faculties break down under the onslaught of promises and hopes offered to assuage life's great anxieties.
2012-06-20 15:08

Life is contingent and filled with uncertainties, the most frightening of which is the manner, time, and place of our own demise.
Under the pressure of reality, we become credulous. We seek reassuring certainties from fortune-tellers and palm-readers, astrologers and psychics. Our critical faculties break down under the onslaught of promises and hopes offered to assuage life's great anxieties.

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rest and expatiates in a life to come.(Alexander Pope, 1733 Essay on Man, Epistle i, 1.95, )This hope is what drives all of us -skeptics and believers alike- to be compelled by unsolved mysteries, to seek spiritual meaning in a physical universe, desire immortality, and wis...
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rest and expatiates in a life to come.
(Alexander Pope, 1733 Essay on Man, Epistle i, 1.95, )
This hope is what drives all of us -skeptics and believers alike- to be compelled by unsolved mysteries, to seek spiritual meaning in a physical universe, desire immortality, and wish that our hopes for eternity may be fulfilled.

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Humans evolved the ability to seek and find connections between things and events in the environment (snakes with rattles should be avoided), and those who made the best connections left behind the most offspring. We are their descendants. The problem is that causal thinking is not infallible. We make connections whether they are there or not. These misidentifications come in two varieties: false ...
2012-06-20 15:19

Humans evolved the ability to seek and find connections between things and events in the environment (snakes with rattles should be avoided), and those who made the best connections left behind the most offspring. We are their descendants. The problem is that causal thinking is not infallible. We make connections whether they are there or not. These misidentifications come in two varieties: false negatives get you killed (snakes with rattles are okay); false positives merely waste time and energy (a rain dance will end a drought). We are left with a legacy of false positives — hypnopompic hallucinations become ghosts or aliens; knocking noises in an empty house indicate spirits and poltergeists; shadows and lights in a tree become Virgin Mary; random mountain shadows on Mars are seen as a face constructed by aliens.The belief influences the perception. … Vague feelings and memories evoked through hypnosis and guided-imagery in therapy evolve into crystal-clear memories of childhood sexual abuse, even when no corroborating evidence exists.

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three tiers why people believe weird things:(1) because hope springs eternal;(2) because thinking can go wrong in general ways;(3) because thinking can go wrong in particular ways.
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three tiers why people believe weird things:(1) because hope springs eternal;(2) because thinking can go wrong in general ways;(3) because thinking can go wrong in particular ways.

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"One of the characteristics that sets man apart from all the other animals (and animal he indubitably is) is a need for knowledge for its own sake."(Vincent Dethier, 1962, pp. 118-119) On the most basic level ,we must think to remain alive. To think is the most essential human characteristic. Over three centuries ago, the French mathematician and philosopher RenĂŠ Descartes, after one o...
2012-06-20 16:33

"One of the characteristics that sets man apart from all the other animals (and animal he indubitably is) is a need for knowledge for its own sake."
(Vincent Dethier, 1962, pp. 118-119)
On the most basic level ,we must think to remain alive. To think is the most essential human characteristic. Over three centuries ago, the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes, after one of the most thorough and skeptical purges in intellectual history, concluded that he knew one thing for certain:"Cogito ergo sum—I think therefore I am." But to be human is to think. Toreverse Descartes,"Sum ergo cogito—I am therefore I think"

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Balance can be found by answering a few basic questions: What is the quality of the evidence for the claim? What are the background and credentials of the person making the claim? Does the thing work as claimed?
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Balance can be found by answering a few basic questions: What is the quality of the evidence for the claim? What are the background and credentials of the person making the claim? Does the thing work as claimed?

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Humans evolved the ability to seek and find connections between things and events in the environment (snakes with rattles should be avoided), and those who made the best connections left behind the most offspring. We are their descendants. The problem is that causal thinking is not infallible. We make connections whether they are there or not. These misidentifications come in two varieties: false ...
2012-06-20 15:19

Humans evolved the ability to seek and find connections between things and events in the environment (snakes with rattles should be avoided), and those who made the best connections left behind the most offspring. We are their descendants. The problem is that causal thinking is not infallible. We make connections whether they are there or not. These misidentifications come in two varieties: false negatives get you killed (snakes with rattles are okay); false positives merely waste time and energy (a rain dance will end a drought). We are left with a legacy of false positives — hypnopompic hallucinations become ghosts or aliens; knocking noises in an empty house indicate spirits and poltergeists; shadows and lights in a tree become Virgin Mary; random mountain shadows on Mars are seen as a face constructed by aliens.The belief influences the perception. … Vague feelings and memories evoked through hypnosis and guided-imagery in therapy evolve into crystal-clear memories of childhood sexual abuse, even when no corroborating evidence exists.

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three tiers why people believe weird things:(1) because hope springs eternal;(2) because thinking can go wrong in general ways;(3) because thinking can go wrong in particular ways.
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three tiers why people believe weird things:(1) because hope springs eternal;(2) because thinking can go wrong in general ways;(3) because thinking can go wrong in particular ways.

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