1. The Mind, Illusion and the Need for Science
By Jonathan Lomax

4. Why Do People Believe Strange Things?

5. Gallup Poll 1990 1236 Adult Americans
Astrology
Extrasensory Perception
Witches
Aliens Have Landed on Earth
Atlantis
Dinosaurs and Humans Alive Together
Noah’s Flood
Communication with the Dead
Ghosts
Had a Psychic Experience
52%
46%
19%
22%
33%
41%
65%
42%
35%
67%

7. Chance and Self Importance

8. Lethal disease effects one in ten thousand people.
Medical test is 99% accurate.

9. Association

10. Hope Springs Eternal

11. Creationism

12. The balance argument.
The either or argument.
The 2nd law argument.
The religion argument.
The disagreement argument.
The microevolution argument.
The transitional fossils argument

13. THE HITLER FALLACY

14. Psychics

15. Alternate Medicine

16. What’s the problem?