Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others – Robert Trivers
Allen Lane, ISBN 978-0-713-99826-9 The title is enough to attract any skeptic, and the author’s name should be added
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Allen Lane, ISBN 978-0-713-99826-9 The title is enough to attract any skeptic, and the author’s name should be added
Read morePrometheus Books, ISBN 978-1-61614-441-8 It is the fact of denial that has provoked Smith to add yet another species to
Read moreMIT Press ISBN 10: 0262526433 This slim book is part of MIT’s Essential Knowledge series. The term “knowledge”, however,
Read moreRowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780810886773 This is a substantial compendium of papers – running to some 650 pages –
Read moreMIT Press ISBN: 9780262527569 When a hopeful hypothesis bites the dust, when yet another self-contradiction is dragged into the
Read moreOUP ISBN 978-0-19-968156-3 Skeptics’ interest in marine biology may often not extend much beyond imaginary sea monsters, but dolphins
Read moreOUP, ISBN 10: 0199576327 Although the number of angels that can stand on the head of a pin may
Read morePrometheus Books, ISBN 978-1-61614-483-8 Swimming against the toxic tide of baseless “self-help” books, DiSalvo offers us a “science-help” book,
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