Why People Believe Weird Things - [Michael Shermer]

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2、ceDefined"originallyappearedinthejournalScience,Technology,andHumanValues,16,no.4(Autumn1991),517-539.Allartworkandillustrations,exceptasnotedinthetext,arebyPatLinse,arecopyrightedbyPatLinse,andarereprintedwithpermission.ForfurtherinformationontheSkeptics

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4、urtime/MichaelShermer;forewordbyStephenJayGould.—Rev.andexpanded.p.cm."FirstOwlBooksedition"—T.p.verso."Anowlbook."IncludesbibliographicalreferencesandIndex.ISBN0-8050-7089-3(pbk.)1.Pseudoscience.2.Creativeabilityinscience.I.Tide.Q172.5.P77S482002133—dc21

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6、oryofCarlSagan,1934-1996,colleagueandinspiration,whoselectureon"TheBurdenofSkepticism"tenyearsagogavemeabeaconwhenIwasintellectuallyandprofessionallyadrift,andultimatelyinspiredthebirthoftheSkepticsSociety,Skepticmagazine,andthisbook,aswellasmycommitmentt

7、oskepticismandtheliberatingpossibilitiesofscienceItseemstomewhatiscalledforisanexquisitebalancebetweentwoconflictingneeds:themostskepticalscrutinyofallhypothesesthatareserveduptousandatthesametimeagreatopennesstonewideas.Ifyouareonlyskeptical,thennonewide

8、asmakeitthroughtoyou.Youneverlearnanythingnew.Youbecomeacrotchetyoldpersonconvincedthatnonsenseisrulingtheworld.(Thereis,ofcourse,muchdatatosupportyou.)Ontheotherhand,ifyouareopentothepointofgullibilityandhavenotano