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Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World

David Robert Grimes

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Publisher's Note: Good Thinking was previously published in the UK as The Irrational Ape.

In our ever-more-polarized society, there's at least one thing we still agree on: The world is overrun with misinformation, faulty logic, and the gullible followers who buy into it all. Of course, we're not among them--are we?

Scientist David Robert Grimes is on a mission to expose the logical fallacies and cognitive biases that drive our discourse on a dizzying array of topics-from vaccination to abortion, 9/11 conspiracy theories to dictatorial doublespeak, astrology to alternative medicine, and wrongful convictions to racism. But his purpose in Good Thinking isn't to shame or place blame. Rather, it's to interrogate our own assumptions-to develop our eye for the glimmer of truth in a vast sea of dubious sources-in short, to think critically.

Grimes's expert takedown of irrationality is required reading for anyone wondering why bad thinking persists and how we can defeat it. Ultimately, no one changes anyone else's mind; we can only change our own-and give others the tools to do the same.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Experiment
  • Publish Date: Mar 30th, 2021
  • Pages: 400
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.50in - 1.10in - 0.84lb
  • EAN: 9781615197934
  • Categories: • Logic• Cognitive Psychology & Cognition• Philosophy & Social Aspects

About the Author

Grimes, David Robert: - Dr. David Robert Grimes is a physicist, cancer researcher and science journalist. Born in Dublin in 1985, he is affiliated with Dublin City University and University of Oxford. He contributes to both the BBC and RTE discussing science, politics and media and has contributed to The Guardian, The Irish Times, the BBC, PBS, and The New York Times, among others. He also advises on science policy, and was joint recipient of the 2014 Nature/Sense about Science Maddox Prize for Standing Up for Science.

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Read Science! host, book lover, biology lecturer, STEM advocate. Increasing your science TBR pile since 2008. Find me on other social media by this same handle.

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Cancer researcher, physicist, scoundrel. Author (#TheIrrationalApe / #GoodThinking). Science, Medicine, Foppish hair. Alt socials: https://t.co/lYSkqY4PX8

...and just because it always confuses people, the North American edition has different title and cover, "Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World" - available here, or bookshops if you're so inclined https://t.co/VnbeMgscuw https://t.co/bGx3lJ73N1

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Praise from the UK

"From anti-vaxxers to Dunning-Kruger, from homeopathy and astrology to 'false balance' (what I call the BBC Fallacy), from misused statistics to nuclear brinkmanship, our irrationality could be our undoing. A book exposing the irrational ape and teaching us to mend our ways might so easily have become all preachy and teachy. Instead, such is David Robert Grimes's storytelling skill, his book is an unstoppable page-turner. If our leaders were forced to read this book, the world would be a safer place.--Richard Dawkins
A beautifully reasoned book about our own unreasonableness.-- "Robin Ince"
Grimes's book addresses an all-too-urgent contemporary political question: How do we protect our societies and ourselves from charlatans and fools? . . . It brings a fresh perspective, and has been painstakingly researched. This spirited cocktail of data leavened with anecdotes is served up in Grimes's trademark provocative, combative style . . . a highly creditable debut from a skilled communicator.--John Gibbons, Irish Times

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Mentioner image for: Joanne Manaster
Joanne Manaster
@sciencegoddess
3 years

Read Science! host, book lover, biology lecturer, STEM advocate. Increasing your science TBR pile since 2008. Find me on other social media by this same handle.

We're live talking about the book, Good Thinking: Why flawed logic puts us all at risk and how critical thinking can save the world with Dr. David Robert Grimes https://t.co/aBGdGP9Kce

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Dr David Robert Grimes
@drg1985
2 years

Cancer researcher, physicist, scoundrel. Author (#TheIrrationalApe / #GoodThinking). Science, Medicine, Foppish hair. Alt socials: https://t.co/lYSkqY4PX8

...and just because it always confuses people, the North American edition has different title and cover, "Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World" - available here, or bookshops if you're so inclined https://t.co/VnbeMgscuw https://t.co/bGx3lJ73N1

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