Skeptical


The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
Bad Astronomy
A Love Letter to Whiskey (A Love Letter to Whiskey #1-1.5)
A Little Life
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
Kill Switch (Devil's Night, #3)
Tryst Six Venom
Four Psychos (The Dark Side, #1)
The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)
The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Carl Sagan
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

..."Suzette Boon also become very much involved [in dissocation]... She was in my office and was a family therapist, and when I left for a yearlong sabbatical in Isreal, she took over my patients. And the interesting thing is that she was very skeptical about what I was seeing, while now she's one of the real experts in Europe and has done marvelous research with regard to the diagnosis of the dissociative disorders! ...more
Onno van der Hart, Coping With Loss: The Therapeutic Use of Leave-Taking Rituals

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