Excerpt Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Shermer, Michael; Gould, Stephen Jay (Foreword by) Terms of Use PART 1 SCIENCE AND SKEPTICISM Science is founded on the conviction that experience, effort, and reason are v…
The co-founder of "Skeptic" magazine explains why people are so willing to believe in mind reading, alien abductions, ghosts, and other manifestations of pseudoscience, and discusses how such wrong thinking can lead to very real danger
The co-founder of "Skeptic" magazine explains why people are so willing to believe in mind reading, alien abductions, ghosts, and other manifestations of pseudoscience, and discusses how such wrong thinking can lead to very real danger.