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

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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

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Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It

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

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A Skeptic's Library

170 books — 127 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

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Spiritual Naturalism

124 books — 46 voters

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Being Property Once Myself by Joshua Bennett

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The Black Intellectual Tradition by Derrick P. Alridge

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5 books — 1 voter

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“ Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure. ...more ”
― George Carlin

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“ My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. ”
― Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

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