Michael Brooks-13 Things That Don't Make Sense
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Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense. Science’s best-kept secret is that there are experimental results and reliable data that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar “anomalies†have revolutionized our world, like in the sixteenth century, when a set of celestial anomalies led Copernicus to realize that the earth goes around the sun and not the reverse, and in the 1770’s, when two chemists discovered oxygen because of experimental results that defied the theories of the day. Thus, if history is any precedent, we should look to today’s inexplicable results to forecast the future of science. In 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense, Michael Brooks heads to the scientific frontier to meet thirteen modern-day anomalies and discover tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Michael Brooks, Ph.D., is a consultant and former senior features editor for New Scientist, where the wildly popular articles on which this book is based first appeared. He has written for the Guardian, the Independent, and the Observer and lives in England.
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Looks interesting. Thanks mate.
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Thank you very much!
This was a great book that I was not aware of. I gone buy myself a copy of this book.
This was a great book that I was not aware of. I gone buy myself a copy of this book.
Thanks a lot jwhitt62!
Please leave your torrents open, this is one of those few interesting books in the infinite sea of fluff.
Please leave your torrents open, this is one of those few interesting books in the infinite sea of fluff.
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The most anti-science "science" book I've ever read...
"13 Things That Don't Make Sense" is a list of things that the author apparently dearly wishes were true.
The main pattern of this book seems to be:
1) Identify some topic which the vast majority of scientists agree upon how it works.
2) Introduce a "scientist" that has some radically different idea about how it works.
3) Gain reader's trust by briefly acknowledging a few of the more obvious arguments against the radical ideas and briefly admit that the radical view might actually be wrong.
4) Spend all the rest of the chapter promoting the radical ideas and painting the entire scientific community as closed-minded dogmatic.
I was genuinely surprised that there wasn't a chapter titled "Evolution", as the author's pattern of attacking science seems to come directly from the play book of the Discovery Institute.
Upon finishing the book, I concluded that the author's overarching agenda was to champion homeopathy. All the preceding chapters were a setup to undermine the reader's trust in the scientific community as a whole and it's ability to accurately answer questions about the world around us.
The author clearly wants homeopathy to be true so bad that he's resolved to believe in it until the scientific community can prove to his satisfaction that it doesn't work.
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The most anti-science "science" book I've ever read...
"13 Things That Don't Make Sense" is a list of things that the author apparently dearly wishes were true.
The main pattern of this book seems to be:
1) Identify some topic which the vast majority of scientists agree upon how it works.
2) Introduce a "scientist" that has some radically different idea about how it works.
3) Gain reader's trust by briefly acknowledging a few of the more obvious arguments against the radical ideas and briefly admit that the radical view might actually be wrong.
4) Spend all the rest of the chapter promoting the radical ideas and painting the entire scientific community as closed-minded dogmatic.
I was genuinely surprised that there wasn't a chapter titled "Evolution", as the author's pattern of attacking science seems to come directly from the play book of the Discovery Institute.
Upon finishing the book, I concluded that the author's overarching agenda was to champion homeopathy. All the preceding chapters were a setup to undermine the reader's trust in the scientific community as a whole and it's ability to accurately answer questions about the world around us.
The author clearly wants homeopathy to be true so bad that he's resolved to believe in it until the scientific community can prove to his satisfaction that it doesn't work.
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thank you, skeptoidfan.
You saved me alot of grief, now i can skip this one
You saved me alot of grief, now i can skip this one
@skeptoidfan thanks dude, thanks for clearing it up for me. I was skeptical about this one, wanted to give it a try. You saved me alot of time.
Great book, too bad I just read it a few month ago, DAMNIT
Thanks for the review skeptoidfan - I won't bother with this one.
Cheers!
Cheers!
@skeptoidfan Another thank you from me.
For some reason I got the feeling that it would be something like that when I read the title of the book, but then I saw that it is in science category and thought that it must be real deal. Good thing that I read your comment...
For some reason I got the feeling that it would be something like that when I read the title of the book, but then I saw that it is in science category and thought that it must be real deal. Good thing that I read your comment...
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