Why People Believe Weird Things

"The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" by Carl Sagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World Also around the age of 8 or 9 I read some Erich von Däniken book and got quite excited by what it contained. However, I eventually realised that it was complete nonsense and I got really affronted that people could write books that contained stuff that wasn't true. A useful lesson! Edit: Another one is "Why People Believe Weird Things": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_People_Believe_Weird_Thing... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_People_Believe_Weird_Things)

Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_People_Believe_Weird_Things... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_People_Believe_Weird_Things:_Pseudoscience,_Superstition,_and_Other_Confusions_of_Our_Time)) Or just about anything by Martin Gardner, along with a note to write him sometime before 2010.