Not born yesterday. There is a way about who we trust and what we believe in

Why is the tenacious superstitions and prejudices, and scientific knowledge often meets stubborn resistance in society? Why are the masses can be manipulated using gross technologies? How did our picture of the world have the rapid development of social networks? Hugo Mercier, a well -known cognitive psychologist who worked in the leading research centers of France and the USA, is looking for an answer to these and other questions, disputing the rooted idea that people are gullible by nature. He introduces the reader to the features of our perception of information, re -comprehends different phenomena of ancient and recent history, from the tragic episodes of the Peloponnesian war and the process over the Salem witches to the election of Trump and persistent suspicion in relation to vaccination. Provinging the fallacy of ideas about our inability to filter the flow of information, the author of the book, not without humor, warns also to accept his arguments on faith