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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 82,698 ratings — published 1995
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,014 ratings — published 1997
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 287,442 ratings — published 2006
Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,072 ratings — published 1982
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,293 ratings — published 2008
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 114,455 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 — 5,013 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 — 7,686 ratings — published 2011
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,797 ratings — published 2002
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 43,012 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 — 43,867 ratings — published 2004
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,614 ratings — published 2008
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,060 ratings — published 2010
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,177 ratings — published 1952
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,517 ratings — published 1999
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,237 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
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 — 22,708 ratings — published 1957
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,203 ratings — published 1991
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 19,013 ratings — published 2007
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,001 ratings — published 2005
The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 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 20 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,249 ratings — published 2009
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,363 ratings — published 1986
50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,328 ratings — published 2011
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.54 — 2,421 ratings — published 2009
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,832 ratings — published 2006
Doubt: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,336 ratings — published 2003
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 — 13,015 ratings — published 2006
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,340 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 — 3,145 ratings — published 2013
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,428 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 — 27,763 ratings — published 2011
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,572 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 — 5,521 ratings — published 2020
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 635 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 — 29,591 ratings — published 2007
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,436 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
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,914 ratings — published 1995
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,480 ratings — published 2012
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 38,940 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 — 607 ratings — published 1995
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,154 ratings — published 1841
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,922 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 — 205,997 ratings — published 2018
Skepticism 101: How to Think like a Scientist (Audiobook)
by (shelved 11 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 634 ratings — published 2013
“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.”
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“In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.”
― Venus in Arms
― Venus in Arms
