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Delusions of Gender: How Ou...

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4.08 avg rating — 11,400 ratings
"There's a lot of sexism which uses appeals to nature and different biological-sex brains. Overwhelmingly this is confirmation bias distorting results. Dr Fine clears away misconceptions."
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The Myth of Race: The Troub...

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"It is not nature, but culture and history that results in racism. "
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The Prince

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3.84 avg rating — 382,075 ratings
"Controversial as it is, politicians, in many ways, have to be bad to succeed in politics. I did a long form essay arguing why http://www.fondthinker.com/politics/r..."
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Manufacturing Consent: The ...

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4.24 avg rating — 24,347 ratings
"Vested interests are real: not a conspiracy. They convince you who to vote for, for money."
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Contingency, Irony, and Sol...

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4.14 avg rating — 2,274 ratings
"For Rorty, rather than truth be relative, truth is contingent. I disagree since the speed of light in vacuo and the laws of themodynamics are not truth via frame of reference, but it gives a readable account of how the fictional and compassionate are valuable even if a lot of our assumptions and culture are framed--not objective. "
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Objectivity: A Very Short I...

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3.52 avg rating — 116 ratings
"Most use 'objective' wrongly. This explains how, and what it is wonderfully."
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The Problems of Philosophy

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3.90 avg rating — 18,596 ratings
"For the essay on probable (and ergo improbable) opinion. "
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Practical Ethics

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4.06 avg rating — 3,528 ratings
"What matters in ethics in the shortest time possible."
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The Evolution of Morality (...

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3.86 avg rating — 153 ratings
"How nature is a set of dispositions that are brought out favourably or unfavourably in the environment - including morals."
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Economics: The User's Guide

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4.16 avg rating — 8,537 ratings
"A readable and democratic primer to the pseudoscience and value-judgements of economics."
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Outliers: The Story of Success

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"Exceptional people are just that - outside of the average and almost always hugely favoured by luck, money, and biases. There is no self-made success."
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Who Governs Britain?

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3.81 avg rating — 305 ratings
"An expose of the levels of government citizens likely won't think about, unless they read this."
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A Field Guide to Lies: Crit...

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3.76 avg rating — 4,702 ratings
"Pseudoscience is thrown around a lot, especially in the shape of statistics. This can help remedy that."
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The Demon-Haunted World: Sc...

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4.29 avg rating — 80,187 ratings
"Reason is all we have, and it is precious. A readable and short guide to understanding science methods, and reason, and why they are valuable. "
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The Organized Mind: Thinkin...

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Truth: A Guide for the Perp...

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Bad Science

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"Explains daily pseudoscience and the misuse of the 'science' name to misjustify bad claims"
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We Should All Be Feminists

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The Culture Industry

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