Excellent, but...

I very much liked this book... except. I found the narrator's otherwise excellent presentation drove me crazy when he missed a 't' in certain words, such as 'impor-ant'. Drove me crazy. Apart from this, this was an excellent book.

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Excellent factual and enjoy experience

Mister Novela gave a great performance. The book is an extremely valuable resource, I learned a lot and found the experience enjoyable.

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Long read, but very worth it

Great book. Equips you with tools to deal with pseudo science and logical fallacies, among other things.

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Classic SGU

Narration was great, after years of listening to the SGU podcast, hearing more of Dr Steve was very familiar.
Unlike most books I've completed recently; this book may have been better read than listened to. So many occasions I caught my mind wandering after an interesting sentence, only to have to repeat the last minute or two, get caught wandering at the same spot, and around we go again...
I tend to disagree with the autbors and publishers choice of single narrator, single style. I really would have preferred to listen to each of them narrate their own part, as they had written it. This may however just be a text vs voice thing though.

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The podcast, cubed.

I bought this imagining an extended version of the podcast, which I enjoy. Nothing wrong with that. What I got for my money was a different vision of the SGU team; the book was genuinely surprising in its depth and novelty. Listening to the weekly show, the format is light and entertaining. The book reveals their understanding and deep research into skepticism, and the result was absorbing in a way that the podcast just cant be.
Great work.

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SGU ROCKS

As an avid listener of the weekly podcast for many years now, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on both the audio version and the hard cover. I was initially concerned that content from Steve’s great courses lecture series would be recycled which was quickly swept away once I saw they’d covered differnt aspects of woo.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone wishing to learn how to think critically in everyday life. Everyone, everywhere needs a little skepticism in their lives, why not learn how to do it properly.

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A Must Read

This book is everything it says on the tin, it is a highly interesting, engaging and thorough guide to critical thinking and skepticism and Dr Novella does a wonderful job as narrator. The Skeptic's Guide is a delightful and much needed update to Carl Sagan's 'A Demon Haunted World' and I daresay is just as good or even better as either a starting point or a refresher for those trying to get a handle on the topic. I highly recommend 'The Guide' to absolutely everyone, especially those interested in thinking well. Newcomers to the topic and seasoned skeptics alike all have something to gain from this book and should find it both highly insightful and easy to listen to. Five stars all round.

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Critical Thinking Can Be Taught!

With so much nonsense in the world masquerading as knowledge this book couldn’t be more timely. Recommend for everyone, but particularly those struggling to navigate the endless streams of pseudoscience, woo, fad diets, and science “breakthrough” headlines that never materialize. Inoculate yourself from errors in thinking, and be better at separating truth from falsehood. Becoming a “skeptic” is about thinking critically and careful discernment not naysaying. Let the SGU be your guide!

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brilliant way to start the day

I've been listening to this each morning on the drive to work and it's been enlightening to say the least. it made me think of facts that wouldn't normally come up in my everyday and its given me interesting conversation topics for my circle.

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Great skeptical guide by the SGU!

This book written by the SGU is an in depth look at skeptisim and the many pseudoscience, alternative therapy's and conspiracy theories that skeptics come up against on a daily basis. Full of facts and entertaining anecdotes, this book is a fun read from start to finish. I especially enjoyed the psychology of why we believe weird things, and all the different fallacies we can fall into.
I highly recommend it.

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