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Believing in strange things

on Friday, October 26, 2007 with 0 comments » |

TED Talk by Skeptic Society founder Michael Shermer explains why humans believe in the strangest of things and how they justify it to themselves....

In the absence of sound science, incomplete information can combine with the power of suggestion. In fact, he says, humans tend to convince ourselves to believe: We overvalue the "hits" that support our beliefs, and discount the more numerous "misses."


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