Paperback, 306 pages
English language
Published Sept. 19, 1998 by W.H. Freeman & Company.
Why People Believe Weird Things
Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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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. The foreword was written by Stephen Jay Gould.
Subjects
- Parapsychology, psychic powers, ESP
- Reasoning
- Science: General Issues
- Unexplained phenomena
- Pseudoscience
- New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit
- Science
- New Age / Parapsychology
- Sociology
- Controversial Knowledge
- Philosophy & Social Aspects
- General
- Creative ability in science