Review of "13 Things That Don't Make Sense" on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
My husband can tell you that I fully expected this book to be primarily pseudoscience. After listening to it, although I don't agree with all of the things that it said, I am firmly convinced that it is not pseudoscience.
Several ideas were introduced and actually discussed instead of past off as total nonsense, and the current beliefs and social holding is. Why was "ColdFusion" ever believed or considered to start with? The book totally discusses it, and though I may not agree with his overall conclusion, I appreciate actually hearing the sides and knowing where they come from. I am neither a philosopher nor a physicist, so my only individual conclusions are NOT as well formed and believable as those of people who have been working in the field, but I really enjoy hearing part of what the actual question is.
Do we have free will? My own belief: …
My husband can tell you that I fully expected this book to be primarily pseudoscience. After listening to it, although I don't agree with all of the things that it said, I am firmly convinced that it is not pseudoscience.
Several ideas were introduced and actually discussed instead of past off as total nonsense, and the current beliefs and social holding is. Why was "ColdFusion" ever believed or considered to start with? The book totally discusses it, and though I may not agree with his overall conclusion, I appreciate actually hearing the sides and knowing where they come from. I am neither a philosopher nor a physicist, so my only individual conclusions are NOT as well formed and believable as those of people who have been working in the field, but I really enjoy hearing part of what the actual question is.
Do we have free will? My own belief: NO. Is the placebo effect real? I suppose it depends on what you consider to be "real." And what about homeopathy? I personally believe that it's totally nonsense! But I do know that there are those who "believe" in it. And I like hearing some of the actual basis for their beliefs. I still don't believe it, but this does not mean that none of the "nonsense" that a lot of people DO believe is, by definition, totally unfounded.
I don't know that my own beliefs per se have changed, but I think this book has affected them. And perhaps it's helped affect my own biases also.