Why do obviously intelligent people believe things in spite of the evidence against them? Will Storr has travelled across the world to meet an extraordinary cast of modern heretics in order to answer this question He goes on a tour of Holocaust sites with David Irving & a band of neo-Nazis experiences his own murder during 'past-life regression' hypnosis takes part in a mass homeopathic overdose & investigates a new disease affecting tens of thousands of people
- a disease that doesn't actually exist Using a unique mix of personal memoir investigative journalism & the latest research from neuroscience & experimental psychology Storr reveals why the facts just won't convince some people & how the neurological 'hero-maker' inside all of us can so easily lead to self-deception & science-denial The Heretics will change the way you think about thinking