50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True - Guy P. Harrison
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Stressing the excitement of scientific discovery and the legitimate mysteries and wonder inherent in reality, this book invites readers to share the joys of rational thinking and the skeptical approach to evaluating our extraordinary world. Maybe you know someone who swears by the reliability of psychics or who is in regular contact with angels. Or perhaps you’re trying to find a nice way of dissuading someone from wasting money on a homeopathy cure. Or you met someone at a party who insisted the Holocaust never happened or that no one ever walked on the moon. How do you find a gently persuasive way of steering people away from unfounded beliefs, bogus cures, conspiracy theories, and the like? This down-to-earth, entertaining exploration of commonly held extraordinary claims will help you set the record straight. This veteran journalist has not only surveyed a vast body of literature, but has also interviewed leading scientists, explored “the most haunted house in America,” frolicked in the inviting waters of the Bermuda Triangle, and even talked to a “contrite Roswell alien.” It is not out simply to debunk unfounded beliefs. Wherever possible, he presents alternative scientific explanations, which in most cases are even more fascinating than the wildest speculation. For example, stories about UFOs and alien abductions lack good evidence, but science gives us plenty of reasons to keep exploring outer space for evidence that life exists elsewhere in the vast universe. The proof for Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster may be nonexistent, but scientists are regularly discovering new species, some of which are truly stranger than fiction.
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 2/5
June 6th, 2015
Sounds really interesting! Thanks for the share:)
June 7th, 2015
My horoscope said I should listen to this. Thanks!
June 7th, 2015
Thank you daenigma100.
This looks like my kind of book.
June 8th, 2015
Thanks.
Um, Help!
Is this actually uploaded? I’m stuck at 0.00 %.
I will gladly seed for a few months if I can get it. Has anyone actually downloaded this book yet?
June 10th, 2015
@mooose: It didn’t come down for me. What I do is to thank the uploader first and then download or try to…. sometimes a book just won’t come down for whatever reason, sometimes it’s an old torrent and there aren’t any seeds anymore….
I’ll try it again and let you know if it comes down.
What are you using? I’m using an older uTorrent 2.2.1 - sometimes older is better! :)
October 29th, 2018
This will go well in the section of the library for dead memes and silly, antiquated beliefs in the primacy of materialism. Read to see what people used to believe before we discovered consciousness is non-local, there is life after death, “aliens” are real, ect.
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