The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

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While excavating fossils in the tropics of Australia with a celebrity creationist, Will Storr asked himself a simple question. Why don’t facts work?

Why, that may be, did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely consider in Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and a six-thousand-year-old Earth, regardless of the evidence against them? It was once the start of a journey that would lead Storr far and wide the world―from Texas to Warsaw to the Outer Hebrides―meeting an bizarre cast of modern heretics whom he tries his best to keep in mind. Storr tours Holocaust sites with famed denier David Irving and a band of neo-Nazis, experiences his own murder all over “past life regression” hypnosis, discusses the looming One World Government an iconic climate skeptic, and investigates the tragic life and death of a woman who believed her parents were high priests in a baby-eating cult.

The use of a unique mix of highly personal memoir, investigative journalism, and the recent research from neuroscience and experimental psychology, Storr reveals how the stories we tell ourselves about the world invisibly shape our beliefs, and how the neurological “hero maker” inside us all can so easily lead to self-deception, toxic partisanship and science denial.

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