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The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

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The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

While excavating fossils in the tropics of Australia with a celebrity creationist, Will Storr asked himself a simple question. Why donâ€™t facts work?

Why, that is, did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely believe in Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and a six-thousand-year-old Earth, in spite of the evidence against them? It was the start of a journey that would lead Storr all over the worldâ€”from Texas to Warsaw to the Outer Hebridesâ€”meeting an extraordinary cast of modern heretics whom he tries his best to understand. Storr tours Holocaust sites with famed denier David Irving and a band of neo-Nazis, experiences his own murder during â€œpast life regressionâ€ hypnosis, discusses the looming One World Government an iconic climate skeptic, and investigates the tragic life and death of a woman who believed her parents were high priests in a baby-eating cult.

Using a unique mix of highly personal memoir, investigative journalism, and the latest research from neuroscience and experimental psychology, Storr reveals how the stories we tell ourselves about the world invisibly shape our beliefs, and how the neurological â€œhero makerâ€ inside us all can so easily lead to self-deception, toxic partisanship and science denial.

Country	USA
Author	Will Storr
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781468309812
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	The Overlook Press
Manufacturer	The Overlook Press
NumberOfPages	346
PublicationDate	2014-03-06
Publisher	The Overlook Press
ReleaseDate	2014-03-06
Studio	The Overlook Press

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