The New Nonsense: The End of the Rational ConsensusAnalyzes the embracing of non-rational ideas or beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence as a harbinger of social collapse. |
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... astrology should not be making a comeback today ; there should be no revival of satanism , witchcraft , or Oriental religions ; no scientology ; possibly no psychoanalysis . In fact , as I will try to show , there may be more of a ...
... astrology should not be making a comeback today ; there should be no revival of satanism , witchcraft , or Oriental religions ; no scientology ; possibly no psychoanalysis . In fact , as I will try to show , there may be more of a ...
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... astrology , which he tried to put on a scientific footing by supposing the in- fluence of the heavenly bodies to be due to electricity or mag- netism . His first book , De planetarum influxu , appeared in 1766 , and in his first ...
... astrology , which he tried to put on a scientific footing by supposing the in- fluence of the heavenly bodies to be due to electricity or mag- netism . His first book , De planetarum influxu , appeared in 1766 , and in his first ...
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... astrology , all but dead by the turn of the century , began its recrudescence here in the 1920s , when the Bolsheviks and Italian Fascists were consolidating their regimes and the Nazis laying the groundwork of theirs . Since World War ...
... astrology , all but dead by the turn of the century , began its recrudescence here in the 1920s , when the Bolsheviks and Italian Fascists were consolidating their regimes and the Nazis laying the groundwork of theirs . Since World War ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
On Being a Believer | 33 |
Touch Hate Feel Etc | 42 |
Copyright | |
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