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California State University - Stanislaus - FALL 2010 | ||
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Updated Edition) by Michael Shermer, Stephen Jay Gould (Foreword) Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-10: 0-8050-7089-3 / 0805070893 ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7089-7 / 9780805070897 Few can talk with more personal authority about the range of human beliefs than Michael Shermer. At various times in the past, Shermer has believed in fundamentalist Christianity, alien abductions, Ayn Rand, megavitamin therapy, and deep-tissue massage. Now he believes in skepticism, and his motto |