Dr David Robert Grimes Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dr David Robert Grimes

Bonus example: James Randi exposing faith-healer Peter Popoff, who was famed for his magical insights into the people he "cured". In reality, his wife was reading from their "prayer cards" into his earpiece. Brilliant hot-reading scam all the same https://t.co/OxFgUTz1um

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...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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In Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum", they use a computer programme named Abulafia to randomly smash conspiracy theories together. Liz is its human equivalent, dangerously close to failing the Turing test... https://t.co/T74n6OK2lt

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@lsv_misophist Firstly, I've read on the Open Society and its enemies by Popper, so dunno what you think this is giving me. Secondly, I doubt you have read this given its talking about suppression of debate which this is quite clearly not what tweet is about.

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...I'll also add the case of Sylvia Browne, America's most famous psychic, because it's so absolutely grim. She injected herself in missing persons cases, traumatised families with outright nonsense about their loved ones , and made a fortune doing so. https://t.co/jdymwlMHFF

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