Svetoch of reason. Sturmark K.

The modern world has a huge number of ideas, concepts and systems that offer a person this or that explanation of reality. Conspiracy theories, alternative medicine, spiritual practices, astrology, esotericism, despite the development of science, do not lose popularity. But what can they really explain? And why are many people so easily ready to believe in them? In this book, the Swedish enlightener Krister Sturmark and the American physicist Douglas Hofstadter tell how scientific knowledge is arranged, explain why our brain is so easily abandoning rational thinking, and give simple tools that will help to confront manipulations and errors.