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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time is a 1997 book by science writer Michael Shermer.
In Breaking the Spell, philosopher Daniel Dennett focused on the question of "why we believe strange things". In The God Delusion , biologist Richard Dawkins discussed religion broadly. In God Is Not Great , journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens claimed religious forces attack human dignity and wrote about corruption in religious ...
He has presented at several TED conferences with "Why people believe strange things" in 2006, [67] "The pattern behind self-deception" in 2010, [68] and "Reasonable Doubt" in 2015. [69] [70] Shermer has debated Deepak Chopra several times, [71] [72] including on the ABC News program Nightline in March 2010. [73]
Here we are, living on a massive rock hurtling through an endless universe, with around 8 billion people spread across countless cultures, each with unique beliefs and ways of life. It’s a lot.
As LiveScience pointed out back in 2010, brain scans have shown people use all of their brain, though it is true we don't use all of it at the same time. But years of studies like that don't seem ...
Why people believe weird things: pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. ISBN 978-0-7167-3090-3. Thagard PR (1978). "Why astrology is a pseudoscience". PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. 1978 (1): 223–234.
Image credits: dumbinternetstuff #17. People aren’t equal. I don’t mean by race. Racism is nonsense. Some people are good looking nice smart and athletic and had the right upbringing.
Ron Lindsay has argued that while some non-scientific claims appear to be harmless or "soft targets", it is important to continue to address them and the underlying habits of thought that lead to them so that we do not "have a lot more people believing that 9/11 was an inside job, that climate change is a hoax, that our government is controlled ...