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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,255 ratings — published 1995
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,018 ratings — published 1997
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 288,401 ratings — published 2006
Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,071 ratings — published 1982
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,407 ratings — published 2008
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 114,880 ratings — published 2007
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.39 — 5,049 ratings — published 2018
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,692 ratings — published 2011
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,796 ratings — published 2002
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 43,102 ratings — published 2006
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,947 ratings — published 2004
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,620 ratings — published 2008
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,069 ratings — published 2010
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,516 ratings — published 1999
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 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,178 ratings — published 1952
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,238 ratings — published 2008
Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,625 ratings — published 2000
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,207 ratings — published 1991
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 22,793 ratings — published 1957
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 19,048 ratings — published 2007
The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 577 ratings — published 2003
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,248 ratings — published 2009
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,130 ratings — published 2005
50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,325 ratings — published 2011
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,521 ratings — published 1986
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.54 — 2,426 ratings — published 2009
Doubt: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,337 ratings — published 2003
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,841 ratings — published 2006
The Faith Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 851 ratings — published 1987
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.88 — 13,052 ratings — published 2006
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,465 ratings — published 2005
Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine (Vitamins, Supplements, and All Things Natural: A Look Behind the Curtain)
by (shelved 16 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,150 ratings — published 2013
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,431 ratings — published 2006
Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,810 ratings — published 2015
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,845 ratings — published 2011
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,589 ratings — published 2000
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,581 ratings — published 2020
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,958 ratings — published 1995
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 638 ratings — published 1994
The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.62 — 636 ratings — published 2001
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,694 ratings — published 2007
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,075 ratings — published 2007
Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.74 — 598 ratings — published 2011
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,527 ratings — published 2012
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 39,066 ratings — published 2012
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 606 ratings — published 1995
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,173 ratings — published 1841
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,091 ratings — published 2009
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.35 — 207,005 ratings — published 2018
Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.74 — 910 ratings — published 2018
“In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.”
― An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
― An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
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