HERETICS: ADVENTURES WITH THE ENEMIES OF SCIENCE

Book ID/图书代码： 04300012B54451

English Summary/英文概要： Will Storr was in the tropical north of Australia, excavating fossils with a celebrity creationist, when he asked himself a simple question. Why don’t facts work? Why, that is, did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely believe in Adam and Eve, the garden of Eden and a 6000-year-old earth, in spite of the massive evidence against it?

It was the start of a journey that would lead Storr all over the world – from Texas to Warsaw to the Outer Hebrides – meeting an extraordinary cast of modern heretics who he tries his best to understand. He goes on a tour of Holocaust sites with David Irving and a merry band of summer-holidaying neo-Nazis, takes a homeopathic overdose with radical James Randi-worshipping rationalists in Manchester, discusses the looming One World Government with iconic climate sceptic Lord Monckton and investigates the tragic life and death of a woman who believed her parents were high priests in a baby-eating cult.

Using a unique mix of highly personal memoir, investigative journalism and the latest research from neuroscience and experimental psychology, Storr reveals how the stories we tell ourselves about the world invisibly shape our beliefs, and how the neurological ‘hero maker’ inside us all can so easily lead to self-deception, toxic partisanship and science denial...

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 为什么人们不相信事实？尽管有大量证据反驳伊甸园中的亚当和夏娃，以及6000岁高龄的地球这些论断。为什么身边很聪明的人仍要相信它们。当威尔.斯托尔(Will Storr)问自己这些简单的问题时，他正在澳大利亚北部的热带地区与一位著名的创世论者挖掘化石。

这是旅程的开始,它带领斯托尔走遍世界各地，从德克萨斯(Texas)到华沙(Warsaw)的外赫布里底群岛，去拜访那些他竭尽全力去了解的非凡的现代异教徒组织。他与大卫·欧文(David Irving)和一群夏天度假的新纳粹分子一道继续走访大屠杀站点，在曼彻斯特与激进的崇拜理性主义者詹姆斯兰迪实施一个顺势疗法，与标志性气候怀疑论者蒙克顿讨论即将发生的单一世界政府，调查一个女人的悲惨人生和其死亡，这个女人坚信她的父母是食婴邪教的高级牧师。

斯托尔使用一种独特的方式将个人回忆录和调查性新闻以及神经科学和实验心理学方面的最新研究相结合，揭示了那些我们告诉自己的有关世界的故事是如何在无形中塑造我们信仰的；揭示了我们心中神经学上的“大英雄”是如何轻易的导致我们自欺欺人，恶毒的党派之争和科学否认。(LNL & CK)

Awards/获奖情况：“I loved it... The book is funny, serious, richly vivid... Read this book. Then, for the sake of your sanity, convince yourself that none of its findings apply to you, and forget them as quickly as you can.” Telegraph (*Five Stars*)

The book also received a major six-page serialisation in The Sunday Times Magazine at the weekend. Both pieces are attached, and the Telegraph review can also be read in full here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9823893/The-Heretics-by-Will-Storr-review.html

About the Author/作者介绍： 威尔.斯托尔(Will Storr)是一个详情记者，小说家。他的作品在各种出版物上发表，包括《卫报》(Guardian Weekend)，《纽约时报》杂志(The Times Magazine)，《观察家杂志》(Observer Magazine),《GQ》，《嘉人》(Marie Claire)和《悉尼先驱晨报》(Sydney Morning Herald)。他是《君子》杂志(Esquire)的特约编辑。他曾被提名为年度新记者和年度专栏作家，曾荣获国家记者具乐部卓越奖。2010年，他的有关袋鼠肉行业的调查赢得了澳大利亚食品媒体最佳新闻调查奖，2012年，他被授予了一个世界新闻奖项和国际特赦组织奖，以表彰他对反男性性暴力的工作.

WILL STORR is a longform journalist and novelist. His features have appeared in various publications, including Guardian Weekend, The Times Magazine, Observer Magazine, GQ, Marie Claire and the Sydney Morning Herald. He is a contributing editor at Esquire magazine. He has been named New Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year, and has won a National Press Club award for excellence. In 2010, his investigation into the kangaroo meat industry won the Australian Food Media award for Best Investigative Journalism and, in 2012, he was presented with the One World Press award and the Amnesty International award for his work on sexual violence against men.

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