Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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 spiri…
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Weitere Autoren: Gould, Stephen Jay (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8050-7089-7
- EAN: 9780805070897
- Produktnummer: 19439941
- Verlag: Macmillan USA
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.3 cm x D3.0 cm 312 g
- Auflage: Revised and Exp
- Gewicht: 312
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Michael Shermer; Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould
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