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Title: Glad I Downloaded the Kindle Sample
Review: This is one of those occasions that I'm glad I downloaded the Kindle sample instead of making a purchase based on the publisher's/author's description. As an anthropologist, I was hoping for a scientific review of recent neurological and psychological advances in understanding the ways in which people come to believe things like religion or superstition or engage in behaviors that range from ritualistic habits of baseball players to OCD. Instead, Lipton seems to embrace irrational belief rather than explore it; adopting pseudoscience rather than science. His derision of evidence-based medicine in the introduction and first chapter are also disappointing. If you're looking for an actual exploration of the biology of belief, it probably isn't this text. On the other hand, if you're looking for confirmation of belief...
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