NEW DATE: Book Club: Why People Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer
Critical discussion of Michael Shermer’s Why People Believe Weird Things (Part Three, chapters 9–11; ~45 pages) in Standard Pizza’s back room, where Atheists of WNC unpack pseudoscience and reasoning over casual pizza.
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