March 22nd Book Club: Why People Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer
Close-reading discussion of Michael Shermer’s final chapters on science’s limits and the psychology of belief, hosted by Atheists of WNC in a casual pizza-parlor back room for chapter-focused critical thinking.
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