"This sparkling book romps over the range of science and anti-science." --Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel
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, wit...
"This sparkling book romps over the range of science and anti-science." --Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel
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.
Michael Shermer is the author of The Moral Arc, Why People Believe Weird Things, The Believing Brain, and several other books on the evolution of human beliefs and behavior. He is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the editor of Skeptic.com, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. He lives in Southern California.
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. (查看原文)
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...
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0 有用 某水 2012-05-29 11:15:12
I Am therefore I THINK
0 有用 蝉 2013-12-25 20:48:57
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0 有用 江清月近人 2012-11-07 17:49:21
前几章是五星水平
0 有用 FlyingBalloon 2016-01-03 13:29:30
Mostly the book is interesting to read. But some materials used are not familiar to my background, so it's difficult to get the points sometimes.
0 有用 X 2021-08-13 07:03:32
成也栗子，败也栗子。其中有很多调查报告和数据，但是有的栗子太冗长和琐碎了些。 @2014-04-23 04:45:07
0 有用 X 2021-08-13 07:03:32
成也栗子，败也栗子。其中有很多调查报告和数据，但是有的栗子太冗长和琐碎了些。 @2014-04-23 04:45:07
0 有用 FlyingBalloon 2016-01-03 13:29:30
Mostly the book is interesting to read. But some materials used are not familiar to my background, so it's difficult to get the points sometimes.
0 有用 蝉 2013-12-25 20:48:57
:无
0 有用 江清月近人 2012-11-07 17:49:21
前几章是五星水平
0 有用 某水 2012-05-29 11:15:12
I Am therefore I THINK