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--On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:41:38 Vincent Campbell wrote: >To give a good example of what Joe's talking about here- >Michael Shermer's book 'Why People Believe Weird Things' (very good book, >awful title), has a chapter on the Ayn Rand cult, which looks at this >problem of scientism. > > There's a book out called _The Ayn Rand Cult_ or some such. I haven't yet read it, but I'd imagine it focuses on some of the idiosyncrasies of Objectivism. I wonder if the author took any inspiration from Richard Noll's _The Jung Cult_, which awoke me from a dogmatic slumber of my own.
Scott
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