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Skepticism Books
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,042 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 — 9,996 ratings — published 1997
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 284,659 ratings — published 2006
Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,054 ratings — published 1982
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,010 ratings — published 2008
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 113,267 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 52 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,906 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 — 7,667 ratings — published 2011
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,780 ratings — published 2002
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 42,677 ratings — published 2006
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,598 ratings — published 2004
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,588 ratings — published 2008
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,171 ratings — published 1952
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,028 ratings — published 2010
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,515 ratings — published 1999
Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,624 ratings — published 2000
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,217 ratings — published 2008
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 — 22,498 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 — 3,189 ratings — published 1991
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 18,966 ratings — published 2007
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 — 2,251 ratings — published 2009
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,649 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 — 576 ratings — published 2003
50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,325 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 — 41,949 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 — 2,407 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 — 10,764 ratings — published 2006
Doubt: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,326 ratings — published 2003
The Faith Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 845 ratings — published 1987
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,974 ratings — published 2006
Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,805 ratings — published 2015
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.60 — 40,963 ratings — published 2005
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,483 ratings — published 2011
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,519 ratings — published 2000
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,383 ratings — published 2020
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 4.11 — 3,134 ratings — published 2013
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,426 ratings — published 2006
Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.75 — 593 ratings — published 2011
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 633 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 — 29,236 ratings — published 2007
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,348 ratings — published 2012
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,741 ratings — published 2007
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 38,352 ratings — published 2012
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,803 ratings — published 1995
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,270 ratings — published 2010
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 602 ratings — published 1995
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,103 ratings — published 1841
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,321 ratings — published 2009
The Men Who Stare at Goats (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 20,576 ratings — published 2004
“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
“Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death?
No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.
One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?"
Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.”
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No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.
One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?"
Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.”
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