The boundaries of belief (1)
I sometimes think that no belief is too weird that someone somewhere – probably quite thoughtful and intelligent – will hold that belief. I really wonder whether there are any boundaries to some people’s belief systems.
I send out an electronic Thought For The Week [if you’d like to receive it e-mail me] and this week’s thought is as follows:
“As a culture, we seem to have trouble distinguishing science from pseudoscience, history from pseudohistory, and sense from nonsense.”
“Why People Believe Weird Things” by Michael Shermer (1997)
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