Journalist Will Storr investigates why facts fail to persuade, traveling to meet creationists, Holocaust deniers, climate skeptics and cult believers while exploring self-deception and.
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Journalist Will Storr investigates why facts fail to persuade, traveling to meet creationists, Holocaust deniers, climate skeptics and cult believers while exploring self-deception and.
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While excavating fossils in the tropics of Australia with a celebrity creationist, Will Storr asked himself a simple question. Why don't facts work? Why, that is, did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely believe in Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and a six-thousand-year-old Earth, in spite of the evidence against them? It was the start of a journey that would lead Storr all over the world-from Texas to Warsaw to the Outer Hebrides-meeting an extraordinary cast of modern "heretics"...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Holocaust site visits; accounts of cult violence and a hypnotic murder experience
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Creationism, Holocaust denial, neo-Nazism and cult belief systems examined
Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Past-life regression hypnosis and baby-eating cult rituals described
Political content
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Climate skepticism, One World Government theories and neo-Nazi ideology explored
Self-harm / suicide
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Tragic death of a woman tied to cult beliefs recounted
Abuse & suffering
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Child abuse and ritual suffering within a baby-eating cult discussed
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