Think Before You Believe
Modern Day Myths, Questionable Claims, and Uncommon Sense
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About the Book
Most Americans are not fools, but we have become easy to fool. Political posturing, hype advertising, staged TV news, and faked profit reports are full of modern day myths and questionable claims. Religion, ethics, science, and psychology are re-inventing themselves and battling for our minds.
Truth telling is on holiday. It seems we will believe almost anything.
Many urge us to “Stop! Think!” But who will tell us how? I will, in this book. The reader will learn to use uncommon sense to avoid mistakes caused by rampaging emotions, mass psychology, and obsolete beliefs. Some may recognize uncommon sense by its other name, critical thinking.
The book is short...
135 pages of easy, thought-provoking and often entertaining reading.
About the Author
Richard E. Thompson, MD, a graduate of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is the author of Health Care Reform as Social Change and On Beyond Compliance: Thinking Inside a Brand New Box. His Ethical Aspects column appears regularly in Physician Executive magazine. Dr. Thompson also writes books and columns for hcpro/Opus, Marblehead, MA. For five years, Dr. Thompson authored a monthly letter, Between the Lines, winning recognition from readers as an effective pamphleteer in the tradition of Thomas Paine and Will Rogers. He lives in Springfield, MO, with his wife, Jo, and their dog, Toby.