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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,457 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 — 10,022 ratings — published 1997
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 288,724 ratings — published 2006
Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,077 ratings — published 1982
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,496 ratings — published 2008
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 115,003 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 — 5,058 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 — 7,695 ratings — published 2011
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 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 — 43,145 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 — 44,034 ratings — published 2004
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,622 ratings — published 2008
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,071 ratings — published 2010
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,517 ratings — published 1999
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 — 1,179 ratings — published 1952
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,238 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
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,209 ratings — published 1991
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 — 22,817 ratings — published 1957
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 19,060 ratings — published 2007
The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 578 ratings — published 2003
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 — 2,249 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 — 21,175 ratings — published 2005
50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 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 20 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,580 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 — 2,429 ratings — published 2009
Doubt: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,339 ratings — published 2003
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,861 ratings — published 2006
The Faith Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 849 ratings — published 1987
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.88 — 13,067 ratings — published 2006
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,516 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 — 3,152 ratings — published 2013
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,432 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 — 27,874 ratings — published 2011
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,602 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 — 5,599 ratings — published 2020
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,975 ratings — published 1995
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 640 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 — 29,758 ratings — published 2007
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,357 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
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,549 ratings — published 2012
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 39,137 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 — 606 ratings — published 1995
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,179 ratings — published 1841
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,149 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 — 207,434 ratings — published 2018
Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.73 — 911 ratings — published 2018
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
“The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them — the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
