Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2002-09-01
- Publisher
- Holt Paperbacks
- Retrieved
- May 29, 2011
- ISBN
- 0805070893
- EAN
- 9780805070897
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The Rational Versus the Irrational
Only two possible escapes can save us from the organized mayhem of our dark potentialities-the side that has given us crusades, witch hunts, enslavements, and holocausts. Moral decency provides one necessary ingredient, but not nearly enough. The second foundation must come from the rational side of our mentality…