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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE WEIRD THINGS: PSEUDOSCIENCE, SUPERSTITION, AND OTHER CONFUSIONS OF OUR TIME * _Michael Shermer_ W. H. Freeman: 1997.
306Pp. $22.95, £16.95() But before we say (a resolutely secular) amen to Shermer's book, it may be pertinent to cast a sceptical eye on the sceptics. There are many different reasons
why people believe weird things and indeed many different weird things that they believe. Shermer rounds up the usual suspects: the paranormal, near-death experiences, alien abduction,
Satanism and the ‘recovered memory’ movement, Ayn Rand, and creationism. And what a mixed bag they are. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS
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Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HE, UK John C. Marshall Authors * John C. Marshall View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar
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