Can anyone recommend a good book on "critical thinking"?

[TennesseeWalker]

Just wondering....DU has turned me into quite the skeptic. I'm wondering if there is a good book I could give to some of my more intelligent yet less informed friends. Thanks!

[Dookus]

1. the two best for beginners:

The Demon Haunted World, by Carl Sagan
Why People Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer

[TennesseeWalker]

2. Thanks, Dookus.

You kick ass.

[Enraged_Ape]

4. I would second The Demon Haunted World

Sagan devotes a whole chapter to what he calls "The Baloney Detector". It's excellent.

(EDITED for spelling. Balogna is a mystery meat.)

[Lisa]

3. Huff's "How to Lie With Statistics"

Very good background on how governments, businesses, and other groups misuse data.

[seventhson]

5. "Education for a Critical Consciousness" & "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"

both by Paulo Freire.

This teaches one how to think critically and how to educate others to do so. It helps one deconstruct the bullshit intelligently and see through the lies (and help others to).

Incredible books which changed my thinking completely at a progressive (even radical) College where these books were almost a bible for political science and government majors.