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Paleofantasy: what evolution really tells us about sex, diet & how we live – Marlene Zuk

Paul Taylor - 9th July 2018

W. W. Norton & Company ISBN 10: 0393347923 It's common now to read complaints and warnings about modern life that trace the root of our problems...

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Reality: a very short introduction – Jan Westerhoff

Paul Taylor - 9th July 2018

OUP, ISBN 10: 0199594414 Westerhoff offers a potted survey of a subject that may be of some interest, though he raises several suspicions as to...

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Decoding Reality – Vlatko Vedral

Paul Taylor - 9th July 2018

OUP ISBN 978-0-19-969574-4 Quantum physics will always baffle our intuitions, and pop science books trying to explain it will always be written, often by excitable physicists...

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Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others – Robert Trivers

Paul Taylor - 9th July 2018

Allen Lane, ISBN 978-0-713-99826-9 The title is enough to attract any skeptic, and the author’s name should be added bait for anyone familiar with advances...

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The Fact of Evolution – Cameron M. Smith

Paul Taylor - 9th July 2018

Prometheus Books, ISBN 978-1-61614-441-8 It is the fact of denial that has provoked Smith to add yet another species to the teeming ecology of books...

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Understanding Beliefs – Nils J. Nilsson

Paul Taylor - 9th July 2018

MIT Press ISBN 10: 0262526433 This slim book is part of MIT's Essential Knowledge series. The term "knowledge", however, seems to pose some difficulties for the...

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The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case Against Life After Death – Michael Martin and Keith Augustine

Paul Taylor - 9th July 2018

Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780810886773 This is a substantial compendium of papers - running to some 650 pages - examining the distinctly insubstantial thesis that we...

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‘Pataphysics: A Useless Guide – Andrew Hugill

Paul Taylor - 9th July 2018

MIT Press ISBN: 9780262527569 When a hopeful hypothesis bites the dust, when yet another self-contradiction is dragged into the light of logical analysis, when another friend...

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Wim Hof: the self-described ‘Ice man’ whose extreme health claims leave many cold

Menstrual masking: the inadvisable trend of treating acne… with period blood

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The evidence for pill colour impacting placebo effects gets flimsier the more you examine it

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2000 mules: why many Americans are convinced Trump won the 2020 election

Welcome to the modern American Right – the world that high weirdness built

Donald Trump’s debate performance proved he has mainstreamed extreme conspiracy theories

Med Beds: the futuristic health devices promising to cure you with undefined energy

The meaning crisis, and how we rescue young men from reactionary politics

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Faking the faking of fake news, 1910 style: the ‘death’ of film star Florence Lawrence

Unborn in the USA: being honest about IUDs could help us fight the anti-abortion movement

Exploding the myth of the longevity “Blue Zones”, where people live beyond the age of 100

Scientific publication is now fully digital – so who is responsible for preserving our archives?

HADD its day: there’s no evidence for an inherited hyperactive agency detection device

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