This is an excellent introduction to logical thinking.  Unfortunately, our schools no longer teach logic.  More and more, they don't teach anything at all.  And people believe what they want to believe, logic be damned.<br><br>There are several very good books that attempt, as this book does, to martial evidence, reason, and just plain common sense to convince people to actually think.  But these books are as a voice crying in the wilderness.  People believe what they want to believe, or what they are told to believe, and it is the people who claim to think for themselves who are most likely to echo, word for word, what they hear in the media.  And if you think you're an exception to this rule, you're probably wrong.<br><br>A good test of whether you have something to learn from this book: when was the last time you admitted that you were wrong?