Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole

by Stephen Law

Book Overview

This book identifies eight key mechanisms that can transform a set of ideas into a psychological flytrap.

The author suggests that, like the black holes of outer space, from which nothing, not even light, can escape, our contemporary cultural landscape contains numerous intellectual black-holes--belief systems constructed in such a way that unwary passers-by can similarly find themselves drawn in. While such self-sealing bubbles of belief will...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616144114
• ISBN13: 9781616144111
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"