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Good Thinking

by David Robert Grimes

Good Thinking is our best defense against anti-vaccine paranoia, climate denial, and other dire threats of today

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Publisher's Note: Good Thinking was previously published in the UK as The Irrational Ape.

In our ever-more-polarized society, there's at least one thing we still agree on: The world is overrun with misinformation, faulty logic, and the gullible followers who buy into it all. Of course, we're not among them--are we?

Scientist David Robert Grimes is on a mission to expose the logical fallacies and cognitive biases that drive our discourse on a dizzying array of topics-from vaccination to abortion, 9/11 conspiracy theories to dictatorial doublespeak, astrology to alternative medicine, and wrongful convictions to racism. But his purpose in Good Thinking isn't to shame or place blame. Rather, it's to interrogate our own assumptions-to develop our eye for the glimmer of truth in a vast sea of dubious sources-in short, to think critically.

Grimes's expert takedown of irrationality is required reading for anyone wondering why bad thinking persists and how we can defeat it. Ultimately, no one changes anyone else's mind; we can only change our own-and give others the tools to do the same.

Author Biography

Dr. David Robert Grimes is a physicist, cancer researcher and science journalist. Born in Dublin in 1985, he is affiliated with Dublin City University and University of Oxford. He contributes to both the BBC and RTE discussing science, politics and media and has contributed to The Guardian, The Irish Times, the BBC, PBS, and The New York Times, among others. He also advises on science policy, and was joint recipient of the 2014 Nature/Sense about Science Maddox Prize for Standing Up for Science.

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Praise from the UK

"From anti-vaxxers to Dunning-Kruger, from homeopathy and astrology to 'false balance' (what I call the BBC Fallacy), from misused statistics to nuclear brinkmanship, our irrationality could be our undoing. A book exposing the irrational ape and teaching us to mend our ways might so easily have become all preachy and teachy. Instead, such is David Robert Grimes's storytelling skill, his book is an unstoppable page-turner. If our leaders were forced to read this book, the world would be a safer place.--Richard Dawkins

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Praise from the UK "From anti-vaxxers to Dunning-Kruger, from homeopathy and astrology to 'false balance' (what I call the BBC Fallacy), from misused statistics to nuclear brinkmanship, our irrationality could be our undoing. A book exposing the irrational ape and teaching us to mend our ways might so easily have become all preachy and teachy. Instead, such is David Robert Grimes's storytelling skill, his book is an unstoppable page-turner. If our leaders were forced to read this book, the world would be a safer place." --Richard Dawkins "A beautifully reasoned book about our own unreasonableness." --Robin Ince "Grimes's book addresses an all-too-urgent contemporary political question: How do we protect our societies and ourselves from charlatans and fools? . . . It brings a fresh perspective, and has been painstakingly researched. This spirited cocktail of data leavened with anecdotes is served up in Grimes's trademark provocative, combative style . . . a highly creditable debut from a skilled communicator." --John Gibbons, Irish Times

Details ISBN1615197931 Author David Robert Grimes Short Title Good Thinking Pages 400 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1615197931 ISBN-13 9781615197934 Format Paperback Publication Date 2021-03-30 Subtitle Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World Publisher Experiment Imprint Experiment DEWEY 153.42 Audience General Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2021-03-30

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  • Condition: Brand new
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  • Language: English
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  • Author: David Robert Grimes
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