The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.13 (862 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1468310100 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-01-07 |
Language | : | English |
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Very valuable, and a great read to boot, this is investigative journalism of the highest order." —Independent, Book of the Week "Storr can open chapters like a stage conjurer, and his prose has an easy, laconic style embracing Jon Ronson’s taste for the fabulously weird and Louis Theroux’s ability to put his subjects at ease. Storr's style of letting his subjects hang themselves with their own words." —Michael Shermer, The Wall Street Journal"A tour de force A searching, extraordinarily thoughtful exploration of what it means to believe anything There are entire novels that do less than Storr achieves here in a mere 30 pages Running through all these stories is Storr’s growing uncertainty about certainty." —Laura M
Why don’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 world—from Texas to Warsaw to the Outer Hebrides—meeting an extraordinary cast of modern heretics whom he tries his best to understand. While excavating fossils in the tropics of Australia with a celebrity creationist, Will Storr asked himself a simple question. Storr tours Holocaust sites with famed denier David Irving and a band of neo-Nazis, experiences his own murder during “past life regression” 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 abo
The Supernatural and has written for many publications and won many awards. WILL STORR is a journalist who has dressed up as a woman to impress the transsexual leader of radical pro-suicide campaigners, trained in jungle warfare with the British army, and has been arrested and then deported under armed guard from Los Angeles. He is the author of Will Storr vs.
In a journalist's entertaining engagement with strange believers, science is a major casualty. Peter Bianco This is a book about unreliable observers written by an unreliable observer. The author states that “most humans, not least myself, are an incoherent mess of madness and sanity.” While the self-acknowledged irrationality of the investigator of irrationality makes for dramatic situations that the author skillfully weaves into his story, it also leads to confusion in the author’s search for truth. Storr openly confesses his strong sympathy for the eccentrics he interviews, and demonstrates a painful (if often entertaining) dif. Kudos! Frank Landry Well done!. It Grew on Me This book is subtitled Adventures With the Enemies of Science and so I expected it to be a hard-hitting book debunking the ideas of psuedoescience and the extreme fringe. That is not at all what it turned out to be and at first I felt the author was much too sympathetic with the "unpersuadables". But as I continued reading through the book I found myself appreciating the author's perspective more and more and his approach which refuses to demonize the "enemies of science".This book provides the reader with a view of what the unpersuadables ar