Book Club: Why People Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer
Critical discussion of Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things—a skeptical deep dive into history and pseudoscience (Ch. 12 and 15) in Standard Pizza's back room with Atheists of WNC.
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