The Resource The unpersuadables : adventures with the enemies of science, Will Storr
The unpersuadables : adventures with the enemies of science, Will Storr
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- Summary
- While excavating fossils in the tropics of Australia with a celebrity creationist, Will Storr asked himself a simple question. Why don't facts work? Why, that is, did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely believe in Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and a six-thousand-year-old Earth, in spite of the evidence against them? It was the start of a journey that would lead Storr all over the world-from Texas to Warsaw to the Outer Hebrides-meeting an extraordinary cast of modern "heretics" whom he tries his best to understand. Storr tours Holocaust sites with famed denier David Irving and a band of neo-Nazis, experiences his own murder during "past life regression" hypnosis, discusses the looming One World Government an iconic climate skeptic, and investigates the tragic life and death of a woman who believed her parents were high priests in a baby-eating cult. Using a unique mix of highly personal memoir, investigative journalism, and the latest research from neuroscience and experimental psychology, Storr reveals how the stories we tell ourselves about the world invisibly shape our beliefs, and how the neurological "hero maker" inside us all can so easily lead to self-deception, toxic partisanship and science denial
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 355 pages
- Note
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- "First published in hardcover in the United States in 2014 by The Overlook Press"--Title page verso
- Previously published under title: The heretics : adventures with the enemies of science. London : Picador, 2013
- Isbn
- 9781468308181
- Label
- The unpersuadables : adventures with the enemies of science
- Title
- The unpersuadables
- Title remainder
- adventures with the enemies of science
- Statement of responsibility
- Will Storr
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- While excavating fossils in the tropics of Australia with a celebrity creationist, Will Storr asked himself a simple question. Why don't facts work? Why, that is, did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely believe in Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and a six-thousand-year-old Earth, in spite of the evidence against them? It was the start of a journey that would lead Storr all over the world-from Texas to Warsaw to the Outer Hebrides-meeting an extraordinary cast of modern "heretics" whom he tries his best to understand. Storr tours Holocaust sites with famed denier David Irving and a band of neo-Nazis, experiences his own murder during "past life regression" hypnosis, discusses the looming One World Government an iconic climate skeptic, and investigates the tragic life and death of a woman who believed her parents were high priests in a baby-eating cult. Using a unique mix of highly personal memoir, investigative journalism, and the latest research from neuroscience and experimental psychology, Storr reveals how the stories we tell ourselves about the world invisibly shape our beliefs, and how the neurological "hero maker" inside us all can so easily lead to self-deception, toxic partisanship and science denial
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Storr, Will
- Dewey number
- 001.9
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- Q172.5.H47
- LC item number
- S76 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Heresy in science
- Errors, Scientific
- Pseudoscience
- Belief and doubt
- Holocaust denial
- Creationism
- Parapsychology
- Homeopathy
- Recovered memory
- Science
- Psychology
- Label
- The unpersuadables : adventures with the enemies of science, Will Storr
- Note
-
- "First published in hardcover in the United States in 2014 by The Overlook Press"--Title page verso
- Previously published under title: The heretics : adventures with the enemies of science. London : Picador, 2013
- Bar code
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- 31223115121981
- 31223115121999
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [318]-345) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 355 pages
- Isbn
- 9781468308181
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- 852221395
- (OCoLC)852222088
- Label
- The unpersuadables : adventures with the enemies of science, Will Storr
- Note
-
- "First published in hardcover in the United States in 2014 by The Overlook Press"--Title page verso
- Previously published under title: The heretics : adventures with the enemies of science. London : Picador, 2013
- Bar code
-
- 31223115121981
- 31223115121999
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [318]-345) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 355 pages
- Isbn
- 9781468308181
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- 852221395
- (OCoLC)852222088
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