Skepticism

Philosophical skepticism is an overall approach that requires all information to be well supported by evidence.

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The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It
Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot
The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
Is This Wi-Fi Organic?: A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
Bad Science
Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
Bad Astronomy
Letter to a Christian Nation
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science: The Curious Theories Of Modern Pseudoscientists And The Strange, Amusing And Alarming Cults That Surround Them. A Study In Human Gullibility
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Naguib Mahfouz
“ It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. ...more ”
― Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street

Neil deGrasse Tyson
“ One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research. ”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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