Why People Believe Weird Things
Subtitle: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
Published: September 19, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780716733874
Subjects: Parapsychology, psychic powers, ESP; Reasoning; Science: General Issues; Unexplained phenomena; Pseudoscience; New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit; Science; New Age / Parapsychology; Sociology; Controversial Knowledge; Philosophy & Social Aspects; General; Creative ability in science
First sentence: On the opening page of his splendid little book To Know a Fly, biologist Vincent Dethier makes this humorous observation about how children grow up to be scientists: "Although small children have taboos against stepping on ants because such actions are said to bring on rain, there has never seemed to be a taboo against pulling off the legs or wings of flies.