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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 82,862 ratings — published 1995
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,013 ratings — published 1997
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 287,730 ratings — published 2006
Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,073 ratings — published 1982
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,325 ratings — published 2008
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 114,565 ratings — published 2007
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.39 — 5,028 ratings — published 2018
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,687 ratings — published 2011
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,798 ratings — published 2002
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 43,050 ratings — published 2006
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,904 ratings — published 2004
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,614 ratings — published 2008
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,064 ratings — published 2010
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science: The Curious Theories Of Modern Pseudoscientists And The Strange, Amusing And Alarming Cults That Surround Them. A Study In Human Gullibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,178 ratings — published 1952
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,519 ratings — published 1999
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,237 ratings — published 2008
Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,625 ratings — published 2000
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 22,735 ratings — published 1957
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,205 ratings — published 1991
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 19,021 ratings — published 2007
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,038 ratings — published 2005
The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 577 ratings — published 2003
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,248 ratings — published 2009
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,405 ratings — published 1986
50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,328 ratings — published 2011
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.54 — 2,423 ratings — published 2009
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,838 ratings — published 2006
Doubt: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,337 ratings — published 2003
The Faith Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 851 ratings — published 1987
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.88 — 13,025 ratings — published 2006
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,372 ratings — published 2005
Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine (Vitamins, Supplements, and All Things Natural: A Look Behind the Curtain)
by (shelved 16 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,145 ratings — published 2013
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,430 ratings — published 2006
Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,809 ratings — published 2015
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,801 ratings — published 2011
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,579 ratings — published 2000
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,537 ratings — published 2020
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 635 ratings — published 1994
The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.62 — 636 ratings — published 2001
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,613 ratings — published 2007
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,615 ratings — published 2007
Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.74 — 598 ratings — published 2011
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,922 ratings — published 1995
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,498 ratings — published 2012
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 38,982 ratings — published 2012
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 607 ratings — published 1995
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,161 ratings — published 1841
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,973 ratings — published 2009
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.35 — 206,270 ratings — published 2018
Skepticism 101: How to Think like a Scientist (Audiobook)
by (shelved 11 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 634 ratings — published 2013
“Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what so ever.”
― The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
― The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.”
― Letter to a Christian Nation
― Letter to a Christian Nation
