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WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE
 
WEIRD THINGS
PSEUDOSCIENCE,SUPERSTITION, AND OTHERCONFUSIONS OF OUR TIME
 
REVISED AND EXPANDED
 
Michael Shermer
 
Foreword by
 
Stephen Jay Gould
 
A W. H. Freeman / Owl Book 
 
Henry Holt and Company
 
 New York 
 
 
 
Henry Holt and Company, LLC
 
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Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
 
Copyright © 1997, 2002 by Michael Shermer 
 
 
All rights reserved.
 
 
Distributed in Canada by H. B. Fenn and Company Ltd.
 
"Science Defended, Science Defined" originally appeared in the journal
Science, Technology, and  Human Values,
16, no. 4 (Autumn 1991), 517-539.
 
All artwork and illustrations, except as noted in the text, are by Pat Linse, are copyrighted by Pat
 
Linse, and are reprinted with permission.
 
For further information on the Skeptics Society and
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
 
Shermer, Michael.
 
Why people believe weird things: pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of 
 
our time / Michael Shermer; foreword by Stephen Jay Gould.—Rev. and expanded. p.
 
cm. "First Owl Books edition"—T.p. verso. "An owl book."
 
Includes bibliographical references and Index.
 
ISBN 0-8050-7089-3 (pbk.)
 
 
1. Pseudoscience. 2. Creative ability in science. I. Tide.Q172.5.P77 S48 2002133—dc21
 
2002068784
 
Henry Holt books are available for special promotions and premiums. For details contact: Director, Special Markets.
 
First published in hardcover in 1997 by W. H. Freeman and Company
 
First Owl Books Edition 2002
 
A W. H. Freeman / Owl Book 
 
Printed in the United States of America
 
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