The New Inquisition
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The New Inquisition written by Robert Anton Wilson, copyrighted in 1986 was first published in 1997. In The New Inquisition Wilson skewers those third rate scientists who try to fob off fourth rate garbage as science and is intended to be deliberately shocking, stating he 'does not wants its ideas to seem any less startling than they are.' The book's subtitle Irrational Rationalism and Citadel of Science, is an accurate summary of its topic; 'Models, Metaphors and Idols' with comments on primate psychology and quantum mechanics, 'Skepticism and Blind Faith' with comments on book-burning, biological surrealism and Game Rules, 'Two More Heretics and Some Further Blasphemies' with comments on werewolves and similar Forbidden Things, 'The Dance of Shiva' with comments on Bell's Theorem, Po and mysterious fires, 'Chaos and the Abyss' with comments on phantom kangaroos and blasphemies against Reason, '"Mind", "Matter" and Monism' with comments on coincidence and the Damnedest Heresy of all, 'The Open Universe' with further comments on energy flucuations and "spooks" and 'Creative Agnosticism' with further comments on the human brain, and how to use one.
