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Anonymous Fri Aug 13 09:56:08 2021 No.18839750 [Reply] [Original]

What are some good anti-science/pseudoscientific books? I want to become the kind of person the media call an antivaxxer/science denier/COVIDIOT/climate skeptic/free market fundamentalist etc. So far I've only read few anti-psychiatry books including Myth of Mental Illness by Szasz and Madness and Civilization by Foucault and I'm looking for more literature in this vein. I'll appreciate
>books that openly deny the current scientific consensus in any field and are at odds with the opinion of most experts
>books that argue that modern science is epistemologically unjustifiable positivist trash
>books that make the case for the fallaciousness of commonly accept scientific terms like "illness"
I'm mostly interested in heterodox views from biology, medicine, social sciences, climatology and economics so please no free energy/flat earth/ether exists/calculus doesn't work stuff from physics and math

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 09:57:03 2021 No.18839756 Against Method by Feyerabend

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 10:01:02 2021 No.18839769 >>18839756 Thanks, any prerequisites I'll need?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 10:10:56 2021 No.18839803 >>18839769 literacy

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 10:15:26 2021 No.18839826 >>18839803 I think I'll manage then

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 10:25:14 2021 No.18839858 >>18839750 Based anon. Psychology is a meme. We give pills to healthy people who are not satisfied with the modern civilisation. We weren't made for this.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 10:28:29 2021 No.18839876 >>18839858 >Psychology is a meme. what about the literature on iq and performance predictors?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 10:35:35 2021 No.18839905 >>18839750 Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich. A serious book but you could use it to trash medicine entirely if you wanted

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 10:43:52 2021 No.18839942 >>18839750 Austrian economics, anti Zionism, libertarianism.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 14:48:18 2021 No.18841174 Not too obscure but Doctoring the Mind by Richard Bentall

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Anonymous Fri Aug 13 15:39:27 2021 No.18841449

>>18839858
Psychology, in big parts, is a total pseudoscience. Not because empiric psychology is impossible, but because the psychology community cares very little about such things. They prefer big bold statement to calm assessment. They prefer "qualitative research" aka anecdotal evidence yet pretend that psychology is a science when it shares more with the humanities.

So OP, how about you pick up a textbook on social psychology. That should get you started.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 16:22:46 2021 No.18841675 >>18841449 you're talking about psychoanalysis, not psychology how about you first look into any psychology text book like somthing about memory or whatever before you share your stupid opinion you pleb

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 16:40:47 2021 No.18841780 The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise any work by Felix Guattari

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 16:43:08 2021 No.18841792 >>18839750 >anti-science Popper BTFO'd ALL of inductive science, so you might want to check it out. Be warned that he's a kike, so... >>18839876 >literature on iq and performance predictors? Pretty sure that's neuroscience, not psychology.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 16:57:03 2021 No.18841874 >>18839756 Came here to say this.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 18:08:04 2021 No.18842321 >>18839750 Read Ray Peat Gilbert Ling Danny Roddy Paul Feyerabend

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>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 20:50:21 2021 No.18843093 >>18839750 The Signature in the Cell by Stephen C. Meyer Science's Blind Spot and Darwin's God by Cornelius Hunter

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 13 22:56:23 2021 No.18843618 >>18839750 mein kampf is about as heterodox as it gets

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Anonymous Fri Aug 13 22:59:46 2021 No.18843632
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>t has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.

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Anonymous Fri Aug 13 23:01:47 2021 No.18843636

Books by F. Gardner I guess. I haven’t read them but I know him on the /lit/ discord. He believes in everything you mentioned and even more ridiculous ones. He’s always going on about how he’s convinced God told him to write his books and I have no idea how he’s a functioning human with the beliefs he has.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 14 01:12:07 2021 No.18844267 medium.com/@octskyward this guy writes in depth articles about problems in contemporary scientific research. lots of juicy covid related content to fuel your rejection from polite society.