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Books skeptics or would-be skeptics should read.
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 79,252 ratings
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The God Delusion
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 280,943 ratings
score: 695,
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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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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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3.86 avg rating — 9,963 ratings
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Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
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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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The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
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3.99 avg rating — 2,637 ratings
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50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True
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Guy P. Harrison (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 1,317 ratings
score: 199,
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Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
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4.06 avg rating — 44,598 ratings
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Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
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James Morcan (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 150 ratings
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The Gospel of the Rauschmonstrum
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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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4.39 avg rating — 4,789 ratings
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Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend
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3.57 avg rating — 42 ratings
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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 — 7,624 ratings
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Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
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3.99 avg rating — 5,431 ratings
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Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal
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3.53 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
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4.01 avg rating — 22,173 ratings
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The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
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3.91 avg rating — 3,056 ratings
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Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity
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3.96 avg rating — 1,197 ratings
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The Truth About Uri Geller
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3.93 avg rating — 383 ratings
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The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense
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3.62 avg rating — 634 ratings
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Science of Miracles: Investigating the Incredible
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2.98 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Hocus Pocus #1: Mind Reading
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4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot
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Michael McLeod (Goodreads Author)
3.27 avg rating — 59 ratings
score: 95,
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The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: 2 volumes
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Michael Shermer (Editor)
4.14 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 95,
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
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4.29 avg rating — 10,681 ratings
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Hocus Pocus #2: Séance
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4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Science of Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: Knowing What's Real and Why It Matters
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4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings
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