I’ve recently read How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen.

By turns funny and depressing, the book is an account of the insane irrationalism (from astrology to postmodernism) that seems to have gripped the world over the past 25 years and the way in which the acceptance of these beliefs has eroded the values of the Enlightenment, replacing them with… well, bollocks.

It’s a book that everyone should read - those who believe in the various wacky fads to see how wacky the fads are, and the rest of us to see what we’re up against.

At the end of the day, the book calls for us all to believe a little less and think a little more - and this is something that everyone is capable of.

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