The unpersuadables : adventures with the enemies of science
Title:
The unpersuadables : adventures with the enemies of science
Author:
Storr, Will, author.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : The Overlook Press, 2014.
Physical 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.
General Note:
Previously published under title: The heretics : adventures with the enemies of science. London : Picador, 2013.
Language:
English
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.
ISBN:
9781468308181
9781468308365
Format :
Book
