Why People
Believe Weird Things
Michael
Shermer
In this the book called Why People
Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusion of Our
time by Michael Shermer talks about how people things because they can, or they
have the “intelligence” to. Shermer talks about the beliefs and hopes that most
people share. “Most of us harbor a type of faith in science, and a confidence
that somehow science will solve our major problems.” (Shermer, 7) We always
rely on scientist to fix our problems. We also believe that if something is
from science, it must be true. Which is no always true.
He talks about how thinking can go wrong. Such
as, rumors not being equal to reality. Which is true, rumors are untrue stories
that have been told and get spread to person to person until someone believes
them. Using harsh words such as “rape, cancer, evil, communist.” (Shermer, 55)
It has an easier way of sticking into people’s mind if the story is used with
these kinds of words. “Religious faith depends on social, psychological and
emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities,
evidence and logic.” Said Shermer. I believe that this quote is true because so
many people base their religious believe on other people. Such as those who believe
in the bible. They believe that there should be no color people in the world.
There should not be any kind of LGBT action anywhere.
My favorite part of the book that I
found interesting was when he talked about the Holocaust. He talks about how there
a people who deny that it had happened. Some people say that teaching the
Holocaust is child abuse. I believe that they are wrong. In my opinion, all education
communities should have a program for The Holocaust. This is important because
we need to know what brainwashing is and not to repeat history when Donald
Trump decides to take over the world. I see a lot of similarities when it
comes to Hitler and Donald Trump. Even after Trump the Holocaust needs to be
taught for many years. It also teaches kids that they can’t discriminate
others, or harm another human being because of their religion, or even color.
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