Summary:
Explores logical reasoning and scientific methods used in research. References the book, Why People Believe Weird Things.
This book, Why People Believe Weird Things was a pretty interesting book to me even though there were some parts that I couldn't really grasp the point the author was trying to indicate. However, the author conveyed his message strongly throughout his writing, overall. From my understanding of this book, the key point that the author was trying to get across was that we should really value scientific method, logical reasoning, evidence based work that are based on the ability to show practical proof and apply repetitively in a similar population. The author also had a strong opinion about how we should be careful about differentiating between real science that is evidence based and pseudoscience which only appears to be scientific, but without real proofs nor is evidence based. He also talked about the difference between.....
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