{"product_id":"2940149736966","title":"13 Reasons To Doubt","description":"Extraordinary claims and extraordinary evidence.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe mainstream and social media feed our minds a diet of fringe science and outright pseudoscience. They relentlessly stream paranormal, supernatural, and otherwise extraordinary claims. Where do all these come from? They’re spread by shysters and charlatans, by corporate propagandists with cynical eyes on the bottom line, by priests and preachers of all kinds, by axe-grinding cranks and ideologues, and frequently by well-meaning dupes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis may be a scientific age, but all too often, science, well-grounded scholarship, evidence, and logic are ignored—or even denied.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eScientific skepticism offers a corrective: skeptics defend science and reason, while demanding the evidence for extraordinary claims.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this volume, we offer you thirteen ways to scientific skepticism: thirteen reasons to doubt extraordinary claims. The authors discuss groupthink and cognitive biases, science denialism, weird archeology, claims about religion and free will, and many other topics. Within these pages, there is something for anyone who wants to avoid biases and fallacies, cut through the masses of misinformation, and push back against fakers and propagandists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe chapters are as follows: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA BRIEF HISTORY OF DOUBT: GREAT SKEPTICS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE\u003cbr\u003ePETER FERGUSON \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSKEPTICISM IN AN AGE OF IDEOLOGY \u003cbr\u003eRUSSELL BLACKFORD \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eARE YOU A SKEPTIC?\u003cbr\u003eMARIA MALTSEVA \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWHY YOU CAN’T TRUST YOUR BRAIN\u003cbr\u003eCALEB W. LACK \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBEING SUSPICIOUS OF OURSELVES: GROUPTHINK’S THREAT TO SKEPTICISM\u003cbr\u003eJACQUES ROUSSEAU \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSCIENCE: A MECHANISM FOR DOUBTING; A SOURCE OF RELIABILITY\u003cbr\u003eKEVIN MCCARTHY \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSCIENCE IS PREDICATED ON THE NON-MAGICAL NATURAL WORLD ORDER\u003cbr\u003eJOHN W. LOFTUS \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE POWER OF HUME’S ON MIRACLES\u003cbr\u003eZACHARY SLOSS \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eON DOUBTING THE EXISTENCE OF FREE WILL, AND HOW IT CAN MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE\u003cbr\u003eJONATHAN M.S. PEARCE \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePSEUDOARCHAEOLOGY: SEVEN TIPS\u003cbr\u003eREBECCA BRADLEY \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NEW WORLD ORDER IS COMING FOR YOU!\u003cbr\u003eSTAKS ROSCH \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWHY BELIEFS MATTER\u003cbr\u003eDAVID OSORIO \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSCIENCE DENIALISM AT A SKEPTIC CONFERENCE: A CAUTIONARY TALE\u003cbr\u003eEDWARD K CLINT \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX: SCIENCE DENIALISM AT A SKEPTIC CONFERENCE \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES","brand":"Onus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101408313584,"sku":"2940149736966","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149736966_p0.jpg?v=1763722565","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149736966","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}