Ten Books for Skeptics - XOX

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Ten Books for Skeptics

11:11 pm 21 January 2015

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine - Simon Singh, Edzard Ernst

On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not - Robert A. Burton

Killing Us Softly: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine - Paul A. Offit

The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths - Michael Shermer

Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear by Gardner, Dan (2009) Paperback - Dan Gardner

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine - R. Barker Bausell

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

The Cure for Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness - Timothy Caulfield

This list needed to be updated, slightly.

1 The Demon-Haunted World – Science as a Candle in the Dark (keep)

2 Trick or Treatment (keep)

3 On Being Certain (keep)

4 Killing Us Softly: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine instead of Autism’s False Prophets

5 Believing Brain instead of Why People Believe Weird Things

6 Risk by Dan Gardner (keep)

7 Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (not sure)

8 Snake Oil Science by R. Barker Bausell (not sure)

9 The Cure for Everything (keep)

10 Thinking, Fast and Slow (keep)

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