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Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
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Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason
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3.61 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
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3.79 avg rating — 1,954 ratings
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The Greeks and the Irrational
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4.21 avg rating — 1,049 ratings
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When Prophecy Fails
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3.81 avg rating — 1,284 ratings
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Kite-Flying and Other Irrational Acts: Conversations with Twelve Southern Writers
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Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11
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3.96 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
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3.44 avg rating — 28,034 ratings
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SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable
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3.75 avg rating — 1,285 ratings
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NeuroLogic: The Brain's Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior
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4.26 avg rating — 836 ratings
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How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
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3.95 avg rating — 3,172 ratings
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Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology
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4.04 avg rating — 744 ratings
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Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
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3.74 avg rating — 2,246 ratings
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Democracy without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society
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4.12 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect
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3.76 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Everydata: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day
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3.49 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole
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3.75 avg rating — 591 ratings
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Holy Madness: Spirituality, Crazy-Wise Teachers, and Enlightenment
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3.70 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World
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3.97 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Someone Is Out to Get Us: A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness
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3.98 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
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4.10 avg rating — 3,104 ratings
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
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4.20 avg rating — 7,383 ratings
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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
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3.93 avg rating — 7,633 ratings
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The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing
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3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition
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3.73 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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3.82 avg rating — 5,038 ratings
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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
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4.05 avg rating — 1,172 ratings
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Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea
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3.54 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
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3.94 avg rating — 1,618 ratings
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Reefer Madness
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3.62 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Irrationality
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3.91 avg rating — 1,646 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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4.23 avg rating — 83,727 ratings
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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
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3.62 avg rating — 1,607 ratings
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
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3.99 avg rating — 31,430 ratings
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Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
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4.20 avg rating — 2,261 ratings
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American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox
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4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Bad Science
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4.06 avg rating — 44,732 ratings
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius
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4.10 avg rating — 2,978 ratings
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Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There
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4.02 avg rating — 5,013 ratings
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin: Madness, Vengeance, And The Campaign Of 1912
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3.80 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem
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3.77 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Trials of Passion: Crimes Committed in the Name of Love and Madness
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3.31 avg rating — 146 ratings
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The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat
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4.23 avg rating — 4,689 ratings
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In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos
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4.02 avg rating — 795 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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4.01 avg rating — 224,046 ratings
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You Call It Madness: The Sensuous Song of the Croon
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3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Religion Virus: Why We Believe in God: An Evolutionist Explains Religion's Incredible Hold on Humanity
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4.25 avg rating — 473 ratings
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The Delusions Of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups
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3.59 avg rating — 736 ratings
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Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye
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3.78 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
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4.02 avg rating — 4,044 ratings
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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4.04 avg rating — 44,898 ratings
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Some Extraordinary Popular Delusions
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3.82 avg rating — 5,038 ratings
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Weird Earth. Debunking Strange Ideas About Our Planet
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3.70 avg rating — 169 ratings
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A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
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3.72 avg rating — 1,672 ratings
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
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3.88 avg rating — 12,927 ratings
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Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed
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3.68 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America
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3.84 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
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4.23 avg rating — 5,192 ratings
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Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News and Alternative Facts
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3.60 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race
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4.26 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Bad Astronomy
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4.04 avg rating — 5,771 ratings
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Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural
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3.96 avg rating — 402 ratings
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Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
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4.19 avg rating — 1,231 ratings
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The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions
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4.04 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
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4.17 avg rating — 3,013 ratings
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A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War
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3.61 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Superstition and Science: Mystics, sceptics, truth-seekers and charlatans
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3.45 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural
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3.62 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids
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3.81 avg rating — 591 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures
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4.26 avg rating — 1,255 ratings
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Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Nobody's Child: A Tragedy, a Trial, and a History of the Insanity Defense
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4.01 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
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3.26 avg rating — 7,586 ratings
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On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
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4.27 avg rating — 2,642 ratings
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Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
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4.19 avg rating — 1,398 ratings
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Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill
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3.67 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
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4.10 avg rating — 9,254 ratings
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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
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3.79 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
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4.33 avg rating — 1,527 ratings
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Conspiracy Theories
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3.60 avg rating — 239 ratings
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The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze
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3.69 avg rating — 839 ratings
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Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
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3.90 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
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Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
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3.97 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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Gone Crazy and Back Again
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Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace
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3.97 avg rating — 352 ratings
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The European Witch Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries
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The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
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3.78 avg rating — 266 ratings
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The Big Book of the Unexplained (Factoid Books)
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4.09 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry
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3.75 avg rating — 210 ratings
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The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained
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3.93 avg rating — 547 ratings
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Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
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4.11 avg rating — 587 ratings
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Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
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4.18 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,810 ratings
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The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird
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4.03 avg rating — 4,136 ratings
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Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think
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3.52 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
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3.81 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
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Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them
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3.67 avg rating — 369 ratings
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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4.13 avg rating — 4,223 ratings
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