Research Catalog

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Description

1. 355 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. Interweaves personal memoir and investigative journalism with the latest neuroscience and experimental psychology research to reveal how the stories individuals tell themselves about the world shape their beliefs, leading to self-deception, toxic partisanship, and science denial.

Subject

1. Heresy in science
2. Errors, Scientific
3. Belief and doubt
4. Holocaust denial
5. Creationism
6. Homeopathy
7. Recovered memory
8. Science > Miscellanea
9. Psychology > Miscellanea

Contents

1. 'It's like treason' -- 'I don't know what's going on with these people...' -- 'The secret of the long life of the tortoise' -- 'Two John Lennons' -- 'Solidified, intensified, gross sensations' -- 'The invisible actor at the centre of the world' -- 'Quack' -- 'Some type of tiny wasps' -- 'Top dog wants his name in' -- 'They're frightening people' -- 'There was nothing there, but I knew it was a cockerel' -- 'I came of exceptional parents' -- 'Backwards and forwards in the slime' -- 'That one you just go, "Eeerrrr"' -- 'A suitable place' -- Epilogue : the hero-maker.

Call number

1. JFD 14-4413

Note

1. Previously published under title: The heretics : adventures with the enemies of science. London : Picador, 2013.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Storr, Will, author.

Title

1. The unpersuadables : adventures with the enemies of science / Will Storr.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : Overlook Press, 2014.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2013050449

ISBN

1. 9781468308365 (alk. paper)
2. 146830836X (alk. paper)
3. 9781468308181 (alk. paper)
4. 1468308181 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFD 14-4413