Title: An antidote for wishful thinking
Product review: I found this book a paridigm shifter. It will permantly alter your thinking aboutthe puzzle of why seemingly rational people will accept irrationalattitudes. The author suggests that the rise of the "scientificmethod" was a (happy) historical accident that we owe to the greeks.His experience as a physics teacher is used as an example of thedifficulty in weening people away from subjective thinking.The central idea of this book is that objective thinking is alearned skill that does not come naturally to humans. While this may seeminherently pessimistic it seems to me more realistic thanignoring a major educational problem.
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