Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives

5 best books like Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (Michael Specter): Why Evolution Is True, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths, Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique, What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite, Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking

Why Evolution Is True

Author	Jerry A. Coyne
ISBN	0670020532

Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact.

In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design," there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned-the "evidence," the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection....

The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

Author	Michael Shermer
ISBN	0805091254

The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished.

In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's...

Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique

Author	Michael S. Gazzaniga
ISBN	0060892889

One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social context of our lives.

What happened along the evolutionary trail that made humans so unique?...

What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

Author	David DiSalvo
ISBN	1616144831

This book reveals a remarkable paradox: what your brain wants is frequently not what your brain needs. In fact, much of what makes our brains "happy" leads to errors, biases, and distortions, which make getting out of our own way extremely difficult.

Author David DiSalvo presents evidence...

Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking

Author	Charles Seife
ISBN	0670020338

The author of Zero looks at the messy history of the struggle to harness fusion energy .

When weapons builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, they tapped into the vastest source of energy in our solar system--the very same phenomenon that makes the sun shine. Nuclear fusion was a...