| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009 1) The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker 2) Counterknowledge - Damian Thompson.
A really, really, really annoying book. Complains about pseudoscience, conspiracy theories and the like but from the point of view that "clearly it's nonsense" also appears to have it in for the Muslims, mistakes all Sokals description of the "academic left" (relativists and the like) for the whole of the left. But worst of all he cites teh Daily Fail to back up a number of his points. A right wing Ben Goldacre wannabe. |