Description: This book challenges the view that bad beliefs - beliefs that blatantly conflict with easily available evidence - can largely be explained by widespread irrationality, instead arguing that ordinary people are rational agents whose beliefs are the result of their rational response to the evidence they're presented with.
Review Quotes: "The thesis of this curious text is that humans are rational animals who all too often live in an epistemically polluted environment... The text is succinct, substantive, provocative, and timely; the footnotes, references, and index are excellent." -- Choice