Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Tim Phillips

Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Tim Phillips

Author:Tim Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Infinite Ideas Ltd
Published: 2009-09-15T00:00:00+00:00


HERE’S AN IDEA FOR YOU…

One of the most irritating ways you will encounter shills today is in any bid process. Fake bidders are used to raise a price, and not just on eBay. Resist competing in any auction where someone seems too enthusiastic to raise a price. It’s not that they know something you don’t. They’re often shills.

27 PURE QUACKERY

The world is full of charlatans, quacks and well-meaning fools who exploit our willingness to believe. They’re just as powerful as ever.

When alchemy fell into disrepute ‘a new delusion, based on the power of imagination, suddenly arose’, as Mackay puts it in his chapter on magnetisers.

DEFINING IDEA…

Homoeopathy is insignificant as an art of healing, but of great value as criticism on the medical practice of the time.

~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON



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