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Less than a week after Diana鈥檚 death, the conspiracy hounds were on the
trail. Some mysterious 鈥渢hey鈥� had arranged it, the prime suspects being Islam,
the IRA and the SAS. The rise of sinister hints and nods is the subject of
Michael Shermer鈥檚 Why People Believe Weird Things. The editor of Skeptic
magazine, Shermer deals pungently with contemporary obsessions such as alien
abduction, satanic ritual abuse and recovered memory claims鈥攈e is
particularly scathing on 鈥渟cientific creationism鈥�. Problem? Yes, those who
should read the book aren鈥檛 likely to. Published by W. H. Freeman,
拢16.95/$22.95, ISBN 0716730901.