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Skepticism Books
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,439 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 — 9,971 ratings — published 1997
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 281,307 ratings — published 2006
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,646 ratings — published 2008
Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,033 ratings — published 1982
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 111,883 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 50 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,801 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 — 7,628 ratings — published 2011
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,767 ratings — published 2002
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 42,210 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 — 43,227 ratings — published 2004
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,573 ratings — published 2008
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular Science)
by (shelved 28 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,171 ratings — published 1952
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,512 ratings — published 1999
Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,615 ratings — published 2000
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,005 ratings — published 2010
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,205 ratings — published 1957
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,204 ratings — published 2008
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 18,883 ratings — published 2007
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,165 ratings — published 1991
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,246 ratings — published 2009
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 20,164 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 — 577 ratings — published 2003
50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,317 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 — 41,465 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 — 2,386 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 — 10,691 ratings — published 2006
Doubt: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,315 ratings — published 2003
The Faith Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 841 ratings — published 1987
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,912 ratings — published 2006
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.60 — 40,443 ratings — published 2005
Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,788 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 — 27,221 ratings — published 2011
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,461 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 — 3,097 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 — 5,193 ratings — published 2020
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 — 28,905 ratings — published 2007
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 120,603 ratings — published 2007
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 37,655 ratings — published 2012
Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.75 — 592 ratings — published 2011
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,692 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 — 626 ratings — published 1994
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,221 ratings — published 2012
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 — 7,928 ratings — published 2010
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,257 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 — 595 ratings — published 1995
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 5,009 ratings — published 1841
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 55,833 ratings — published 2009
“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
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“One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.”
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