{"id":4467,"date":"2015-01-02T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2015-01-02T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T11:00:17","slug":"get-your-skeptical-needs-fulfilled-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2015\/01\/02\/get-your-skeptical-needs-fulfilled-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Get your skeptical needs fulfilled! Do it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the writers here at SIN have contributed to an anthology called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/13-Reasons-To-Doubt-writers-ebook\/dp\/B00LRFK548\/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1405446384&amp;sr=8-1-spell&amp;keywords=13+reasons+to+dobt+pearce\"><em>13 Reasons to Doubt<\/em><\/a>, with chapters ranging over many aspects of skepticism. Here s the description:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Extraordinary claims and extraordinary evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The mainstream and social media feed our minds a diet of fringe science and outright pseudoscience. They relentlessly stream paranormal, supernatural, and otherwise extraordinary claims. Where do all these come from? They\u2019re spread by shysters and charlatans, by corporate propagandists with cynical eyes on the bottom line, by priests and preachers of all kinds, by axe-grinding cranks and ideologues, and frequently by well-meaning dupes.<\/p>\n<p>This may be a scientific age, but all too often, science, well-grounded scholarship, evidence, and logic are ignored\u2014or even denied.<\/p>\n<p>Scientific skepticism offers a corrective: skeptics defend science and reason, while demanding the evidence for extraordinary claims.<\/p>\n<p>In this volume, we offer you thirteen ways to scientific skepticism: thirteen reasons to doubt extraordinary claims. The authors discuss groupthink and cognitive biases, science denialism, weird archeology, claims about religion and free will, and many other topics. Within these pages, there is something for anyone who wants to avoid biases and fallacies, cut through the masses of misinformation, and push back against fakers and propagandists.<\/p>\n<p>The chapters are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>INTRODUCTION<\/p>\n<p>A BRIEF HISTORY OF DOUBT: GREAT SKEPTICS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE<br \/>\nPETER FERGUSON<\/p>\n<p>SKEPTICISM IN AN AGE OF IDEOLOGY<br \/>\nRUSSELL BLACKFORD<\/p>\n<p>ARE YOU A SKEPTIC?<br \/>\nMARIA MALTSEVA<\/p>\n<p>WHY YOU CAN\u2019T TRUST YOUR BRAIN<br \/>\nCALEB W. LACK<\/p>\n<p>BEING SUSPICIOUS OF OURSELVES: GROUPTHINK\u2019S THREAT TO SKEPTICISM<br \/>\nJACQUES ROUSSEAU<\/p>\n<p>SCIENCE: A MECHANISM FOR DOUBTING; A SOURCE OF RELIABILITY<br \/>\nKEVIN MCCARTHY<\/p>\n<p>SCIENCE IS PREDICATED ON THE NON-MAGICAL NATURAL WORLD ORDER<br \/>\nJOHN W. LOFTUS<\/p>\n<p>THE POWER OF HUME\u2019S ON MIRACLES<br \/>\nZACHARY SLOSS<\/p>\n<p>ON DOUBTING THE EXISTENCE OF FREE WILL, AND HOW IT CAN MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE<br \/>\nJONATHAN M.S. PEARCE<\/p>\n<p>PSEUDOARCHAEOLOGY: SEVEN TIPS<br \/>\nREBECCA BRADLEY<\/p>\n<p>THE NEW WORLD ORDER IS COMING FOR YOU!<br \/>\nSTAKS ROSCH<\/p>\n<p>WHY BELIEFS MATTER<br \/>\nDAVID OSORIO<\/p>\n<p>SCIENCE DENIALISM AT A SKEPTIC CONFERENCE: A CAUTIONARY TALE<br \/>\nEDWARD K CLINT<\/p>\n<p>APPENDIX: SCIENCE DENIALISM AT A SKEPTIC CONFERENCE<\/p>\n<p>AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/13-Reasons-To-Doubt-writers-ebook\/dp\/B00LRFK548\/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1405446384&amp;sr=8-1-spell&amp;keywords=13+reasons+to+dobt+pearce\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51njr317lML._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-v3-big,TopRight,0,-55_SX278_SY278_PIkin4,BottomRight,1,22_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpg\" alt=\"13 Reasons To Doubt: Essays from the writers of Skeptic Ink\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are all fantastic contributions of varying length and subject matters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is available on paperback, Amazon Kindle, Kobo and Nook now, with iTunes to follow. We would love it if you could get hold of it and post a positive review tohelp boost the book!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Click the image for buying options. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the writers here at SIN have contributed to an anthology called 13 Reasons to Doubt, with chapters ranging over many aspects of skepticism. 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