Giving the Devil his Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
‘The counter to bad ideas is good ideas. The rebuttal to pseudoscience is better science.’
‘We are all wrong some of the time (and many of us, most of the time) so the only way to know if you’ve gone off the rails is to tell others about your beliefs so that they may be tested in the marketplace of ideas.’ This sentiment, from the opening essay of Michael Shermer’s Giving the Devil his Due encapsulates not only the connecting message of the book but its importance to scientifically minded readers.