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

Edité par W.H. Freeman & Company, New York, 1997

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• Titre: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
• Éditeur: W.H. Freeman & Company, New York
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0716733870
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780716733874
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: First Trade Paperback Edition
• État de l'article: 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.