Superstition

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ISBN: 9780691145976 | 0691145970
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/2010

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From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane to exploring past lives through hypnosis, superstition has become pervasive in contemporary culture. Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, asks why people persist in superstitious convictions long after science has shown them to be ill-founded.

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Introduction: Lessons from a tree	p. vii
A Bigger Prize: In which we discover scientists of faith	p. 1
The Secret of Life: In which Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection survives	p. 23
Miracle at Columbia: In which both sides pray for victory	p. 56
Giving up the Ghost: In which we search for the soul	p. 79
The Silent Army: In which we search for an afterlife	p. 93
The Tsunami God: In which the innocent suffer	p. 104
The New Age: In which anything goes	p. 116
Schrödinger's Grave: In which quantum mysticism is found to be superstition	p. 129
The Barbary Duck: In which the body heals itself	p. 142
The Deer: In which the placebo effect is explained	p. 161
The Moral Law: In which we instinctively know right from wrong	p. 188
The Last Butterfly: In which there is no place else to go	p. 202
Bibliography	p. 217
Index	p. 221
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