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Skepticism Books
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,905 ratings — published 1995
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 9,982 ratings — published 1997
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 282,300 ratings — published 2006
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,755 ratings — published 2008
Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,044 ratings — published 1982
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 112,319 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 — 4,841 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 45 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,635 ratings — published 2011
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,773 ratings — published 2002
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 42,381 ratings — published 2006
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,351 ratings — published 2004
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,577 ratings — published 2008
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular Science)
by (shelved 28 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,172 ratings — published 1952
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,513 ratings — published 1999
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,014 ratings — published 2010
Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,620 ratings — published 2000
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 22,305 ratings — published 1957
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,212 ratings — published 2008
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 — 3,171 ratings — published 1991
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,246 ratings — published 2009
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 18,907 ratings — published 2007
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 20,324 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 4.03 — 578 ratings — published 2003
50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,318 ratings — published 2011
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,631 ratings — published 1986
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.54 — 2,396 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 — 10,710 ratings — published 2006
Doubt: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,319 ratings — published 2003
The Faith Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 840 ratings — published 1987
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,927 ratings — published 2006
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.60 — 40,592 ratings — published 2005
Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,795 ratings — published 2015
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,308 ratings — published 2011
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,476 ratings — published 2000
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 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,105 ratings — published 2013
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,429 ratings — published 2006
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,248 ratings — published 2020
Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.75 — 591 ratings — published 2011
The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.62 — 634 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 — 29,018 ratings — published 2007
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,261 ratings — published 2012
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,237 ratings — published 2007
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 37,881 ratings — published 2012
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,731 ratings — published 1995
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 627 ratings — published 1994
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,001 ratings — published 2010
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,262 ratings — published 2010
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 598 ratings — published 1995
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 5,042 ratings — published 1841
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 55,994 ratings — published 2009
“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”
― The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
― The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
“Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”
― Healology
― Healology












