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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,085 ratings — published 1995
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 9,962 ratings — published 1997
Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,034 ratings — published 1982
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 190,229 ratings — published 1976
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,713 ratings — published 1980
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.34 — 38,944 ratings — published 1994
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,467 ratings — published 2012
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,667 ratings — published 2006
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 280,650 ratings — published 2006
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,353 ratings — published 1986
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 471,057 ratings — published 1988
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,791 ratings — published 1859
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,001 ratings — published 2010
Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 845 ratings — published 2006
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,567 ratings — published 2008
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,765 ratings — published 2002
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,848 ratings — published 2008
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,269 ratings — published 1977
The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,055 ratings — published 2004
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,933 ratings — published 2003
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 55,714 ratings — published 2009
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,815 ratings — published 2003
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,432 ratings — published 2006
The Mask of Nostradamus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 198 ratings — published 1990
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 594 ratings — published 1995
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,873 ratings — published 2010
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,247 ratings — published 2009
Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.75 — 591 ratings — published 2011
SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,285 ratings — published 2009
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,994 ratings — published 1997
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,743 ratings — published 2004
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 42,110 ratings — published 2006
The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 579 ratings — published 2003
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,373 ratings — published 1994
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,152 ratings — published 2002
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.85 — 59,786 ratings — published 2008
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 76,827 ratings — published 2010
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,007 ratings — published 2006
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,457 ratings — published 2000
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,529 ratings — published 2004
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,201 ratings — published 2008
The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.55 — 791 ratings — published 2007
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,365 ratings — published 2010
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,826 ratings — published 2007
Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,764 ratings — published 2007
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,627 ratings — published 2011
The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,341 ratings — published 2000
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 37,494 ratings — published 2012
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as science-skepticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,151 ratings — published 2011
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 10,833 ratings — published 1979
“There was a time when the public had an unquestionable faith in biomedicine and the practitioners who translated it into everyday patient care—and physicians believed that the public's trust was justified based on their educational qualifications and training. But today, many patients believe that individual clinicians must earn their trust, just as a close relative has earned it through shared experience.
...Gallop polling over the last several decades that demonstrates how much the public's confidence in most US institutions has deteriorated. Confidence in the medical system in particular fell from 80% in 1975 to 37% in 2015. Statistics from the General Social Survey confirm this troubling trend. Baron and Berinsky explain the historical reasons for this shift in attitudes, but the more pressing question is: How can individual clinicians, and the profession as a whole, regain the patients' trust? ”
― Reinventing Clinical Decision Support: Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Diagnostic Reasoning
...Gallop polling over the last several decades that demonstrates how much the public's confidence in most US institutions has deteriorated. Confidence in the medical system in particular fell from 80% in 1975 to 37% in 2015. Statistics from the General Social Survey confirm this troubling trend. Baron and Berinsky explain the historical reasons for this shift in attitudes, but the more pressing question is: How can individual clinicians, and the profession as a whole, regain the patients' trust? ”
― Reinventing Clinical Decision Support: Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Diagnostic Reasoning
