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The Science Delusion: Asking The Big Questions In A Culture Of Easy Answers (2013)

by Curtis White(Favorite Author)

3.05 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1612192009 (ISBN13: 9781612192000)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Melville House

review 1: I couldn't even finish this. Ad hominems galore. All the author does is offer straw mans and attacks with rhetorical questions claiming the questions and statements cited imply some sort of ideological agenda. The author characterizes Richard Feynman (discover of the Feynman electron) thus: "someone who was almost as famous for playing the bongos and going to strip clubs as he was for physics".If the alternative White wants to offer to science is straw man attacks, I'll have to stick with science. Save yourself. Don't buy this. It's bad. Real bad.
review 2: White accuses the “notorious” Hitchens of some of journalism’s worst crimes – lying, dishonesty, shamefulness and an all-round lack of “decency.” However, while running through a litany of exampl... morees apparently highlighting Hitchens’ intellectual turpitude, White manages something remarkable. Rather than convicting Hitch of “telling less than he knew or ought to have known’,”White shows how it is in fact he who is literarily lazy, inconsistent and mendacious. less

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