Why People Believe Weird Things
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Michael Shermer
Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Few can talk with more personal authority about the range of human beliefs than Michael Shermer. At various times in the past, Shermer has believed in fundamentalist Christianity, alien abductions, Ayn Rand, megavitamin therapy, and deep-tissue massage. Now he believes in skepticism, and his motto is “Cognite tute–think for yourself.” This updated edition of Why People Believe Weird Things covers Holocaust denial and creationism in considerable detail, and has chapters on abductions, Satanism, Afrocentrism, near-death experiences, Randian positivism, and psychics. Shermer has five basic answers to the implied question in his title: for consolation, for immediate gratification, for simplicity, for moral meaning, and because hope springs eternal. He shows the kinds of errors in thinking that lead people to believe weird (that is, unsubstantiated) things, especially the built-in human need to see patterns, even where there is no pattern to be seen. Throughout, Shermer emphasizes that skepticism (in his sense) does not need to be cynicism: “Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 1/5
June 5th, 2010
This is excellent!
August 10th, 2013
Thanks!
August 14th, 2018
This is abridged, right?
March 16th, 2019
Thanks for sharing!
May 17th, 2024
This book made me dumber than I was before listening to it. I expected philosophical arguments but got a pile of gossips of the sort one gets from talk shows instead.
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