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Fads & Fallacies in Pop Culture
"Spiritual Snake Oil" shows that the same fallacies that plague
religious apologetics also infect virtually all "new age" and
"spiritual" writing. Author Chris Edwards does this by dissecting the
arguments and assertions of the most prominent "new age" icons and
"spiritual" writers. They include Robert Pirsig ("Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance"), James Redfield ("The Celestine Prophecy"),
Deepak Chopra ("Life After Death"), Dinesh D'Souza ("Life After
Death"), Francis Collins's ("The Language of God"), Rhonda Byrne ("The
Secret"), and even Michael Crichton (a surprising defender of New Age
thinking). As Edwards shows, the same fallacies, the same errors in
argument, show up time after time in the writings of these--and
virtually all other--"new age" and "spiritual" writers. In addition to
explaining these fallacies in the chapters devoted to the individual
authors, Edwards devotes a final chapter, "A Compendium of Fallacies,"
to outlining the tricks and deceptive practices common to illogical
arguments.
About the Author
S.C. Hitchcock is one of the most promising young "New Atheist" writers. He has written for the two most prominent American skeptical magazines, "Free Inquiry" and "Skeptic," as well as a number of smaller periodicals. He is also the author of "Disbelief 101" (See Sharp Press, 2009), which "Booklist" called "chatty, totally irreverent."
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