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

by Michael Shermer (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $6.47

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.48

  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.