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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World

Yes, a very good book. Not light reading though. Personally, I could have done with slightly less about Thatcher and more about the paranormal, but it covers all the bases quite effectively.
 
Got it, read it, liked it. Francis Wheen is one of the Good Guys, sceptically speaking.
 
"Personally, I could have done with slightly less about Thatcher and more about the paranormal..."TheBoyPaj.

You don't subscribe to the "Witch" theory then?
 
Concerning the presentation:

There's no doubt that we're outnumbered by far.

We have about 5000 members here on the JREF, but on ChristianForums alone; they have already passed 113.000 members - and counting.
 
Of course we're outnumbered - that is, if you assume that everyone who believes in a God, Gods, Goddess or Goddesses is incapable of skepticism.

Don't worry about that Christian forum - take a look at this, if you're really concerned about how many people belong to a religion.

Just making a point... that adherence (even nominal) to a given religion doesn't mean that the individual is either credulous or unskeptical in other ways. :)
 
CFLarsen said:
From Albert Gjedde, Skeptica:



It contains a lot of good points.
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I would have thought you would be the first one to jump on what represents his closing argument:
The myth that two decades of mumbo-jumbo have been accompanied by swift technological and economic progress ... is hard to dislodge. Yet the data from the IMF and the World Bank are unambiguous. In Latin America and the Caribbean, GDP grew by 75 per cent per person from 1960 to 1980; in the next twenty years it rose by just 7 per cent. In sub-Saharan Africa there was an increase of about 34 per cent in the 1960s and 1970s; between 1980 and 2000 per-capita income actually fell by 15 per cent.
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What is wrong with the inference behind this statement??

It might be a good book, but just from the PP file you present here, it seems that Mr Wheen lets his left wing politics cloud his logic at times. He should have steered clear of the economics and stuck to the business mumbo jumbo (although I'm not sure Mr Wheen knows the difference - an indictment in itself).
 
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