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'''''Bullsh*t: How to Detect Junk Science, Bogus Claims, Wacky Theories, and General Human Stupidity''''', by John Grant, is a book about what you can do to help discern facts from lies. Grant does this by explaining examples of bad logic and pseudoscience and explaining the flaws. | '''''Bullsh*t: How to Detect Junk Science, Bogus Claims, Wacky Theories, and General Human Stupidity''''', by John Grant, is a book about what you can do to help discern facts from lies. Grant does this by explaining examples of bad logic and pseudoscience and explaining the flaws. | ||
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Revision as of 10:08, 4 October 2017
Bullsh*t: How to Detect Junk Science, Bogus Claims, Wacky Theories, and General Human Stupidity, by John Grant, is a book about what you can do to help discern facts from lies. Grant does this by explaining examples of bad logic and pseudoscience and explaining the flaws.
Status
I own a hardcover copy of this book and have read it.
Review
Good
- The book is nicely written and enjoyable all the way through.
- There is a good spread of various different topics of bullshit.
Bad
- The book is really more of a list of bad ideas and why their wrong rather than an in-depth look at how to steel your mind to detect them, as the title suggests.
- The author incorrectly suggests that a toilet's flow is a product of the Coriolis force.
- Sources are listed in the bibliography, but they're not cited to specific claims throughout the book, so it's very difficult to verify this.
Ugly
- Nothing.
