Don't let anyone fool you

This book is a plea for our common sense. In a beautiful alternation of narrative and argumentative texts, Jan Bransen shows how special but also how natural our common sense is, and how dubious the assumptions are that underlie a pure and strictly scientific worldview.

Bransen opposes a social order in which scientific expertise is becoming increasingly important and our common sense thinking is increasingly distrusted.
Scientific knowledge cannot replace that, but at most complement it. After all, the scientific story about humanity is our story: a story about emotions, mutual expectations and our desire for shared understanding. Bransen shows that behavioral science would do well to embrace the prominent role of our common sense.