The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (Happy Readers Book Club)

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This month we’ll be discussion the following book, published in 2018:  “The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake”, by Steven Novella.  

This is the book version of the popular podcast of the same name, commonly referred to as SGU. SGU promotes the principles of critical thinking and the epistemology of scientific skepticism (otherwise known as “science”!)  

The book surveys logical fallacies, cognitive biases and perception errors which commonly lead us astray. These are the stock-in-trade of the skeptical movement.  

Elsewhere Novella reviews the scientific method: occam’s razor, placebo effects and p-hacking have star billing here.  These tools are applied to historical examples of…