Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Storr, Will

Publication

New York, NY : Overlook Press, 2014.

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Details

Description

355 pages; 24 cm

Summary

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

• Heresy in science
• Errors, Scientific
• Belief and doubt
• Holocaust denial
• Creationism
• Homeopathy
• Recovered memory
• Science > Miscellanea
• Psychology > Miscellanea

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

'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

JFD 14-4413

ISBN

• 9781468308365 (alk. paper)
• 146830836X (alk. paper)
• 9781468308181 (alk. paper)
• 1468308181 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2013050449

OCLC

852221395

Author

Storr, Will, author.

Title

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

Publisher

New York, NY : Overlook Press, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 14-4413