Fact and Prejudice

Holm Hümmler studied physics and completed his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich. Longer research stays took him to CERN in Geneva and Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. He now works independently as a management consultant. He is involved in the skeptics' organization GWUP and gives lectures and writes articles on, among other things, frontier areas of physics, esotericism in business and martial arts, and technological conspiracy theories. He has already published Relativer Quantenquark- Kann die moderne Physik die Esoterik belegen?Ulrike Schiesser studied psychology at the University of Vienna and completed psychotherapy training in systemic family therapy. As an employee of the Federal Agency for Sectarian Issues, she is an expert on conflicts in the field of esotericism, on personality cults, authoritarian and appropriating group structures and conspiracy theories. She accompanies people through processes ofrethinking and change and advises concerned relatives on communication strategies.

• Part I: Basics.- Introduction.- Why do they believe that? And why do we perhaps believe something equally nonsensical?- Re-thinking processes.- Basic strategies.- With whom does one discuss and for what?- Part II: Typical discussion situations.- On the Internet many things work quite differently.- Discussions in the family.- Children and young people.- Corporate environment and further education.- Health and social system. Part III: Practical tips.- Phrases you hear over and over again.- Practical tips.