I would add Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World to @stephenlaw60's @five_books on pseudoscience. Sagan is superb and passionate about distinguishing science from pseudoscience and why that matters.
(https://twitter.com/philosophybites/status/1307715071557218306?s=02)
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"What can I say to the QAnon Mom next door?"She won’t stop spouting conspiracy theories, despite my attempts to explain that they are false and dangerous.
For four years, my family has been great friends with the family next door. Their kids are the same age as ours, I became close with the mother, our husbands even work together. But during quarantine, my friend started sharing conspiracy theories about the trafficking of children. She believes “PizzaGate” is real and that Hollywood celebrities sacrifice children to drink their blood. I’ve tried to explain the alt-right origins of QAnon falsehoods. Still, in every conversation, she says something like, “I won’t shop at Wayfair. They traffic children inside storage units.” I’ve asked her nicely to stop talking about conspiracy theories with me, but she won’t. How do we move on from this?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/style/qanon-moms.html?smid=em-share
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