The unpersuadables : adventures with the enemies of science
Will Storr
Bok · Engelsk · 2014 · Miscellanea.
| Omfang | 355 sider
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| Utgave | First edition
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| Opplysninger | 'It's like treason' -- 'I don't know what's going on with these people...' -- 'The secret of the long life of the tortoise' -- 'Two John Lennons' -- 'Solidified, intensified, gross sensations' -- 'The invisible actor at the centre of the world' -- 'Quack' -- 'Some type of tiny wasps' -- 'Top dog wants his name in' -- 'They're frightening people' -- 'There was nothing there, but I knew it was a cockerel' -- 'I came of exceptional parents' -- 'Backwards and forwards in the slime' -- 'That one you just go, "Eeerrrr"' -- 'A suitable place' -- Epilogue : the hero-maker.. - Why, that is, did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely believe in Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and a six-thousand-year-old Earth, in spite of the evidence against them? It was the start of a journey that would lead Storr all over the world—from Texas to Warsaw to the Outer Hebrides—meeting an extraordinary cast of modern heretics whom he tries his best to understand. Storr tours Holocaust sites with famed denier David Irving and a band of neo-Nazis, experiences his own murder during "past life regression" hypnosis, discusses the looming One World Government an iconic climate skeptic, and investigates the tragic life and death of a woman who believed her parents were high priests in a baby-eating cult. Using a unique mix of highly personal memoir, investigative journalism, and the latest research from neuroscience and experimental psychology, Storr reveals how the stories we tell ourselves about the world invisibly shape our beliefs, and how the neurological "hero maker" inside us all can so easily lead to self-deception, toxic partisanship and science denial.
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| Emner | Belief and doubt.
Creationism. Errors, Scientific. Heresy in science. Vis mer... Holocaust denial.
Homeopathy. Psychology Recovered memory. Science psykologi tro tvil fornektelse falsk lære nevrovitenskap |
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| ISBN | 9781468308181
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