Pandemic of Delusion: Staying Rational in an Increasingly Irrational World

An essential handbook for navigating the modern age of misinformation that offers practical advice to resist feelings over fact-based thinking.

As it promised, technology has produced an explosion of information. Unfortunately, much of that information consists of misinformation and seemingly conflicting facts. Our innate capacity to process all these purported facts, to distinguish fact from fiction and truth from lies, has become a nearly impossible challenge.

Yet, it is a challenge that we must meet because actual, verifiable facts and truth do still matter. Pandemic of Delusion is a very readable book that takes you on a wild journey through all of the ways that beliefs are spread and how they break through our defenses to become delusions. It offers practical advice to resist misinformation and to recognize fallacious arguments.

And beyond helping you to merely immunize yourself from delusional thinking, Pandemic of Delusion offers an inspirational vision of lives and societies that embrace the wonder of the universe as seen through science and fact-based thinking.

Tyson Gill has had a long career as a teacher, research scientist, and computer scientist. His perspectives are shaped by having experienced living in a large number of countries, including teaching in India and working as a Peace Corps volunteer in South Africa. He has been a long-time evangelist for science and fact-based thinking, writing and speaking on a wide range of related topics.