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100 1  $a Storr, Will.
245 14 $a The heretics : adventures with the enemies of science / $c Will Storr.
264  1 $a London :  $b Picador,  $c 2014.
300    $a 448 pages ; $c 20 cm.
500    $a Originally published: 2013.
505    $a "It's like treason" -- "I don't know what's going on with these people ..." -- "The secret of the long life of the tortoise" -- "Two John Lennons" -- "Solidified, intensified, gross sensations" -- "The invisible actor at the centre of the world" -- "Quack" -- "Some type of tiny wasps" -- "Top dog wants his name in" -- "They're frightening people" -- "There was nothing there, but I knew it was a cockerel" -- "I came of exceptional parents" -- "Backwards and forwards in the slime" -- "That one you just go, 'Eeerrr'" -- "A suitable place" -- pilogue: The hero maker.
520    $a Mixing a highly personal memoir, investigative journalism and the research from neuroscience and experimental psychology, the author reveals how the stories we tell ourselves about the world invisibly shape our beliefs, and how the neurological 'hero maker' inside us all can so easily lead to self deception, toxic partisanship and science denial.
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650  7 $a Neurosciences.
650  1 $a Eccentrics and eccentricities.
650    $a Denial (Psychology.)
650  1 $a Psychology.
650  7 $a Pseudoscience.
650    $a Common fallacies.
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