Why people believe weird things : pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time /
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New York :
W.H. Freeman,
[1997]
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Table of Contents:
- I. Science and skepticism. I am therefore I think : a skeptic's manifesto
- The most precious thing we have : the difference between science and pseudoscience
- How thinking goes wrong : twenty-five fallacies that lead us to believe weird things. II. Pseudoscience and superstition. Deviations : the normal, the paranormal, and Edgar Cayce
- Through the invisible : near-death experiences and the quest for immortality
- Abducted! : encounters with aliens
- Epidemics of accusations : medieval and modern witch crazes
- The unlikeliest cult : Ayn Rand, objectivism, and the cult of personality. III. Evolution and creationism. In the beginning : an evening with Duane T. Gish
- Confronting creationists : twenty-five creationist arguments, twenty-five evolutionist answers
- Science defended, science defined : evolutionism and creationism at the Supreme Court.
- IV. History and pseudohistory. Doing Donahue : history, censorship, and free speech
- Who says the Holocaust never happened, and why do they say it? : an overview of a movement
- How we know the Holocaust happened : debunking the deniers
- Pigeonholes and continuums : an African-Greek-German-American looks at race. V. Hope springs eternal. Dr. Tipler meets Dr. Pangloss : can science find the best of all possible worlds?
- Why do people believe weird things?