Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xii, 306 p.: ill.; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-293) and index. Subjects: Belief and doubt. Truthfulness and falsehood. Creationism. Holocaust denial. Pseudoscience.Parapsychology. History.Creative ability in science. Genre: Science. 1 Kg.

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Titel: Why people believe weird things: pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time / Michael Shermer; foreword by Stephen Jay Gould
Verlag: New York: W.H. Freeman & Co
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0716730901
ISBN-13: 9780716730903
Einband: Hardcover
Auflage: First Edition.

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A survey of a range of irrationalisms, with explanations of their empirical and logical flaws. The book describes the differences between science and pseudo-science, and goes on to describe and critique popular contemporary irrationalisms, UFOs, Holocaust denial and Satanic cult conspiracies.

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