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

Shermer, Michael

ISBN 10: 0716733870 / ISBN 13: 9780716733874

Verlag: W H Freeman & Co, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1998

Beschreibung

First Edition.Trade softcover. Published NY: Freeman, 1998. First edition thus. 306pp., illus. As new.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000560

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
• Verlag: W H Freeman & Co, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0716733870
• ISBN-13: 9780716733874
• Bindung: Soft cover
• Ausgabe: 1st
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, As Issued
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Psychology

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Inhaltsangabe

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.