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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe SUPERSTITION: BELIEF IN THE AGE OF SCIENCE * _Robert L. Park_ Princeton Univ. Press: 2008. 240 pp. $24.95/£14.95. A 'sceptic', in
its original Greek _skepsis_, means 'examination, inquiry, consideration'. The Oxford English Dictionary gives this historical usage: “One who doubts the validity of what claims to
be knowledge in some particular department of inquiry; one who maintains a doubting attitude with reference to some particular question or statement.” And: “a seeker after truth; an
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support AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Michael Shermer is the Publisher of Skeptic magazine (www.skeptic.com), a monthly columnist for Scientific American, an adjunct
professor at Claremont Graduate University, and the author of Why People Believe Weird Things., Michael Shermer Authors * Michael Shermer View author publications You can also search for
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