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Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks»rank: 16695par: Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer
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Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design»rank: 46398par: Michael Shermer
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time»rank: 47451par: Michael Shermer
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Few can talk with more personal authority about the range of human beliefs than Michael Shermer. At various times in the past, Shermer has believed in fundamentalist Christianity, alien abductions, Ayn Rand, megavitamin therapy, and deep-tissue massage. Now he believes in skepticism, and his motto is 'Cognite tute--think for yourself.' This updated edition of Why People Believe Weird Things covers Holocaust denial and creationism in considerable detail, and has chapters on abductions, Satanism, Afrocentrism, near-death experiences, Randian positivism, and psychics. Shermer has five basic answers to the ... |
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Mind Of The Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans»rank: 4110par: Michael Shermer
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Few can talk with more personal authority about the range of human beliefs than Michael Shermer. At various times in the past, Shermer has believed in fundamentalist Christianity, alien abductions, Ayn Rand, megavitamin therapy, and deep-tissue massage. Now he believes in skepticism, and his motto is 'Cognite tute--think for yourself.' This updated edition of Why People Believe Weird Things covers Holocaust denial and creationism in considerable detail, and has chapters on abductions, Satanism, Afrocentrism, near-death experiences, Randian positivism, and psychics. Shermer has five basic answers to the ... |
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The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Share, Gossip, and Follow the Golden Rule»rank: 93370par: Michael Shermer
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Few can talk with more personal authority about the range of human beliefs than Michael Shermer. At various times in the past, Shermer has believed in fundamentalist Christianity, alien abductions, Ayn Rand, megavitamin therapy, and deep-tissue massage. Now he believes in skepticism, and his motto is 'Cognite tute--think for yourself.' This updated edition of Why People Believe Weird Things covers Holocaust denial and creationism in considerable detail, and has chapters on abductions, Satanism, Afrocentrism, near-death experiences, Randian positivism, and psychics. Shermer has five basic answers to the ... |
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time»rank: 119203par: Michael Shermer
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Few can talk with more personal authority about the range of human beliefs than Michael Shermer. At various times in the past, Shermer has believed in fundamentalist Christianity, alien abductions, Ayn Rand, megavitamin therapy, and deep-tissue massage. Now he believes in skepticism, and his motto is 'Cognite tute--think for yourself.' This updated edition of Why People Believe Weird Things covers Holocaust denial and creationism in considerable detail, and has chapters on abductions, Satanism, Afrocentrism, near-death experiences, Randian positivism, and psychics. Shermer has five basic answers to the ... |
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How We Believe»rank: 134780par: Michael Shermer
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0ne hundred years ago social scientists predicted that belief in God would decrease by the year 2000. 'ln fact ... the opposite is has occurred,' Shermer writes in his introduction. 'Never in history have so many, and such a high percentage of the population, believed in God. Not only is God not dead as Nietzche proclaimed, but he has never been more alive.' Why do so many believe in the existence of something so inexplicable? That's exactly what Shermer answers in this comprehensive, intelligent, and highly readable ... |
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The Science of Good & Evil: Why People Cheat, Share, Gossip, and Follow the Golden Rule»rank: 124199par: Michael Shermer
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0ne hundred years ago social scientists predicted that belief in God would decrease by the year 2000. 'ln fact ... the opposite is has occurred,' Shermer writes in his introduction. 'Never in history have so many, and such a high percentage of the population, believed in God. Not only is God not dead as Nietzche proclaimed, but he has never been more alive.' Why do so many believe in the existence of something so inexplicable? That's exactly what Shermer answers in this comprehensive, intelligent, and highly readable ... |
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Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?»rank: 120519par: Michael Shermer, Alex Grobman
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Denying History is a courageous and accessible study of 'a looking-glass world where black is white, up is down, and the normal rules of reason no longer apply.' Authors Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman have immersed themselves in the conferences, literature, and Web culture of Holocaust deniers; they have engaged the pseudo-historians in debate; and they have visited the concentration camps in Europe to investigate the truth of what happened there. Denying History presents Shermer and Grobman's findings. The book refutes, in detail, the Holocaust deniers' claims, ... |
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Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design»rank: 89702par: Michael Shermer
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Denying History is a courageous and accessible study of 'a looking-glass world where black is white, up is down, and the normal rules of reason no longer apply.' Authors Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman have immersed themselves in the conferences, literature, and Web culture of Holocaust deniers; they have engaged the pseudo-historians in debate; and they have visited the concentration camps in Europe to investigate the truth of what happened there. Denying History presents Shermer and Grobman's findings. The book refutes, in detail, the Holocaust deniers' claims, ... |