Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole

This book identifies eight key mechanisms that can transform a set of ideas into a psychological flytrap. The author suggests that, like the black holes of outer space, from which nothing, not even light, can escape, our contemporary cultural landscape contains numerous intellectual black—holes—belief systems constructed in such a way that unwary passers—by can similarly find themselves drawn in. While such self—sealing bubbles of belief will most easily trap the gullible or poorly educated...