What nonsense!

Title: What nonsense!

Author: H. de Regt

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789085066323

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Description:
What nonsense!
Science and the Paranormal

The sixth sense, life after death, homeopathy, Intelligent Design and witchcraft are in. Many people apparently find it difficult to live in a world without the supernatural. Herman de Regt and Hans Dooremalen subjected several of these phenomena to a thorough investigation and wrote an inspiring book about it. Their conclusion is ultimately unambiguous: what nonsense!

The Netherlands is in the grip of the paranormal and the supernatural. Programmes in which people search for sixth senses and past lives attract hundreds of thousands of viewers. Politicians make statements that discredit the theory of evolution. Certain 'scientists' claim that spiritual life continues when we physically die and homeopaths prescribe endlessly diluted solutions as if they were real medicines. We seem to swallow it hook, line and sinker. That all this is scientifically nonsense is not considered important. The potential dangers of it also seem to be ignored en masse.

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About the author(s):

Herman de Regt and Hans Dooremalen are both philosophers and lecture at Tilburg University. Together with Maurice Schouten they wrote Exploring Humans. An Introduction to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2007).