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The Unpersuadables : Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Unpersuadables : Adventures with the Enemies of Science about?
“A tour de force... [Storr's] dogged approach to nailing many of the most celebrated skeptics in lies and misrepresentations is welcome.” —SalonWhy, that is, did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely believe in Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and a six-thousand-year-old Earth, in spite of the evidence against them? It was the start of a journey that would lead Storr all over the world—from Texas to Warsaw to the Outer Hebrides—meeting an extraordinary cast of modern heretics whom he tries his best to understand. Storr tours Holocaust sites with famed denier David Irving and a band of neo-Nazis, experiences his own murder during “past life regression” hypnosis, discusses the looming One World Government with an iconic climate skeptic, and investigates the tragic life and death of a woman who believed her parents were high priests in a baby-eating cult. Using a unique mix of highly personal memoir, investigative journalism, and the latest research from neuroscience and experimental psychology, Storr reveals how the stories we tell ourselves about the world invisibly shape our beliefs, and how the neurological “hero maker” inside us all can so easily lead to self-decepti
Who reads The Unpersuadables : Adventures with the Enemies of Science?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Will Storr
- Publisher
- ABRAMS Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781468308181
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Memoir, Psychology, Computer Science
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (580 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14