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Title:

THE HERETICS
ADVENTURES WITH THE ENEMIES OF SCIENCE

By:

Will Storr

Format:

Paperback

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£10.99

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ISBN 10:

0330535862

ISBN 13:

9780330535861

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Publisher:

PAN MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

2 January, 2014

Edition:

Reprints

Pages:

464

Description:

'I loved it ... funny, serious, richly vivid ... Read this book.' Daily Telegraph

Synopsis:

Why do obviously intelligent people believe things in spite of the evidence against them? Will Storr has travelled across the world to meet an extraordinary cast of modern heretics in order to answer this question. He goes on a tour of Holocaust sites with David Irving and a band of neo-Nazis, experiences his own murder during 'past-life regression' hypnosis, takes part in a mass homeopathic overdose, and investigates a new disease affecting tens of thousands of people - a disease that doesn't actually exist. Using a unique mix of personal memoir, investigative journalism and the latest research from neuroscience and experimental psychology, Storr reveals why the facts just won't convince some people, and how the neurological 'hero-maker' inside all of us can so easily lead to self-deception and science-denial. The Heretics will change the way you think about thinking.

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Imprint:

Picador

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Returnable

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