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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time: Michael Shermer,Stephen Jay Goul
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"Michael Shermer's "Why People Believe Weird Things" is hilarious, educational, critical and gives an excellent summary of how superstition and pseudoscience affects us and what we can do to identify it."
The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics: Michael Shermer
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"Another one of Michael Shermer's brilliant books. This time he applies the forces of natural selection that drove evolution to shed some light on economics, and how the behaviors of complex social groups have influenced the marketplace. Rather than saying "all greed is bad", Shermer shows that there's an acceptable level of greed that can actually benefit the community... and he brings in ev..."
How We Believe, 2nd Edition: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God: Michael Shermer
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"Rather than taking the Dawkins, Dennet, Hitchens approach on "religion as irrationality" argument, Shermer, the founder of the Skeptics Society, takes a look at why we believe, how we believe and the benefits and dangers of faith. He maintains that science and faith are compatible and can be mutually supportive for the individual, but often in conflict when it involves fundamentalism or literal..."
Why People Believe Weird Things: Michael Shermer
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"Here's the audio version, the other was the book."
