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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Cosmos
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Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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The Origin of Species
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The God Delusion
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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Candide
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
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Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing 'Hoax'
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Philip Plait (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 5,766 ratings
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Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
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How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
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Why Evolution Is True
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The Grand Design
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
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3.93 avg rating — 7,625 ratings
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Doubt: A History
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 40,390 ratings
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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4.03 avg rating — 5,392 ratings
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Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
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Christopher Hitchens (Editor)
4.03 avg rating — 18,878 ratings
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Climbing Mount Improbable
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 10,015 ratings
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
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4.05 avg rating — 1,171 ratings
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Mortality
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4.12 avg rating — 29,261 ratings
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Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
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3.94 avg rating — 1,615 ratings
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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
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Cordelia Fine (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 11,360 ratings
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
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4.17 avg rating — 7,906 ratings
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How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
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3.97 avg rating — 3,510 ratings
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Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine
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4.11 avg rating — 4,571 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 120,426 ratings
score: 375,
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
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4.19 avg rating — 64,554 ratings
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
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4.11 avg rating — 20,785 ratings
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The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions
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4.03 avg rating — 578 ratings
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Counter-Knowledge: How We Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History
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3.35 avg rating — 421 ratings
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How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Asking the Right Questions
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3.59 avg rating — 268 ratings
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The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
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4.10 avg rating — 13,192 ratings
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Relax, It's Just God: How and Why to Talk to Your Kids About Religion When You're Not Religious
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Wendy Thomas Russell (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 395 ratings
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The Gospel of the Rauschmonstrum
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3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
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4.07 avg rating — 6,434 ratings
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A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 7,934 ratings
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
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3.88 avg rating — 12,910 ratings
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Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans
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David Niose (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 609 ratings
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The Science of Superheroes
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Lois H. Gresh (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 396 ratings
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
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4.03 avg rating — 9,087 ratings
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Freud: The Making of an Illusion
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3.89 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy
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David Ramsay Steele (Editor)
4.09 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Looking For A Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions & Healing Cures
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3.85 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 575,018 ratings
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The Age of American Unreason
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Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages
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3.87 avg rating — 801 ratings
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Beginnings: The Story of Origins
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Logic: An Introduction
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Divinity of Doubt: The God Question
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The Universe in a Nutshell
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The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
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Whose Word Is It?
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3.93 avg rating — 20,142 ratings
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On Bullshit
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Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief
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3.89 avg rating — 1,302 ratings
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Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
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Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
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Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries
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Benjamin Radford (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The Republican War on Science
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Chris C. Mooney (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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Exuberant Skepticism
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The End of Christianity
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
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The New Skepticism
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Atlas Shrugged
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The Mask of Nostradamus
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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
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Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes: A Case-Based Guide to Critical Thinking in Medicine
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Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
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The Outsider Test for Faith: How to Know Which Religion Is True
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The Born Again Skeptic's Guide To The Bible
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Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole
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The Bible from Cover to Cover
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On the Gods and Other Essays
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Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming
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Chris C. Mooney (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Superstition and Other Essays
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About The Holy Bible
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God and His Demons
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Faith Or Fact ...
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Everything You Know About God is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion
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The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death
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How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial
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The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
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Think: Why You Should Question Everything (Think, #1)
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Guy P. Harrison (Goodreads Author)
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HITLER CHRIST - Nazism, Fascism, Socialism: Swastika, Cross, Hakenkreuz, Hooked-Cross, Crucifixion
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مغالطات
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Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
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Gary Floyd (Goodreads Author)
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Some Answered Questions
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SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable
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Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
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Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
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Massimo Pigliucci (Goodreads Author)
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God Hates Flags! Buy This Book or Go to Hell.: With an Introduction by God
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