The Unpersuadables- Will Storr [Epub & Mobi] [StormRG]
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The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science Author: Will Storr Published: 2014 Publisher: Overlook ISBN: 9781468308181 Format: Retail Epub and Mobi Reader Required: Epub- Adobe Digital Editions, Calibre, MoonReader for Android Mobi- Kindle app, Calibre, MoonReader for Android While excavating fossils in the tropics of Australia with a celebrity creationist, Will Storr asked himself a simple question. 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. 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 about the world invisibly shape our beliefs, and how the neurological “hero maker” inside us all can so easily lead to self-deception, toxic partisanship and science denial.
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joshua13 at 2014-05-14 18:50 CET:
thanks. A fixed belief in something that will not change no matter what amount of contrary evidence or logic is presented is the definition of a delusion. You don't have to be mentally ill to be genuinely delusional. I wonder if delusional beliefs should even count in any diagnosis of mental illness, considering how common they are in people with perfectly healthy brains. Many times the delusion is maintained at all costs because it underpins a belief far more critical to the person. E.g, many christian creationists simply can't let the evidence persuade them. Far more is at stake for them than just the age of the earth or the history of life. They are convinced that if evolution is true that means the bible is false, and that means their entire belief structure and world view are threatened. Yet, in time past christians accepted that the earth moves around the sun, and one day a new generation will accept evolution and wonder why anyone ever saw it as a threat to the bible or christianity.
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