Unreasonable Monkey

The ability to think critically, to not succumb to panic, to separate facts from fiction, and scientific data from the fantasies of charlatans – all of this can literally save lives. Or, at the very least, it will help to... be in this life not an unreasonable monkey, but a thinking person, Homo sapiens. At the same time, both in the depths of history and in the modern world, we encounter a multitude of examples of how the most absurd, primitive, and ignorant theories are dressed up as serious scientific inquiries and are perceived as undeniable truth. One of the main tasks of this book is the fight against pseudoscience in all its manifestations. Analyzing the most striking examples of pseudoscientific myths and pseudoscientific hypotheses, Grimes details how they are created, why they have such an influence on people, what to do to avoid being influenced by them, and how to defeat them.