The heretics
Subtitle: adventures with the enemies of science
By: by Will Storr
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9781447231684; 9781447208976
Subjects: Pseudoscience; Psychology; Neurosciences
Description: Mixing a highly personal memoir, investigative journalism and the research from neuroscience and experimental psychology, the author 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-435) and index.
Table of contents: title: "It's like treason" --; title: "I don't know what's going on with these people ..." --; title: "The secret of the long life of the tortoise" --; title: "Two John Lennons" --; title: "Solidified, intensified, gross sensations" --; title: "The invisible actor at the centre of the world" --; title: "Quack" --; title: "Some type of tiny wasps" --; title: "Top dog wants his name in" --; title: "They're frightening people" --; title: "There was nothing there, but I knew it was a cockerel" --; title: "I came of exceptional parents" --; title: "Backwards and forwards in the slime" --; title: "That one you just go, 'Eeerrr'" --; title: "A suitable place" -- -- Epilogue:; title: The hero maker.