Bogus Science reviewed again . . .
Jan. 9th, 2010 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthog. . . and this time by Ken MacLeod, no less, on his blog The Early Days of a Better Nation. Here are some extracts:
John Grant's Bogus Science gives much of the genuine pleasure I used to get from Fortean Times, with a far more bracing scepticism, and a harder line on the damage done by indulging credulity. [. . .]
Grant's book ranges widely, from ancient and modern geocentrists and flat-earthers to inventors of perpetual motion machines, promoters of zero point energy, discoverers of Atlantis [. . .] and hunters of Bigfoot [. . .], taking in a lot more along the way. There's something very satisfying in seeing that every design for a perpetual motion machine (weights! magnets! no, wait, water . . .) that I ever scribbled on the back of a physics jotter in high school was anticipated centuries earlier by people much cleverer than myself.
[. . .] Beautifully produced, endlessly entertaining and highly recommended.
Cockahoop, moi?
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Date: 2010-01-09 10:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-12 04:09 pm (UTC)Thank you kindly, ma'am.
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Date: 2010-01-09 10:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-12 04:10 pm (UTC)Parce-que je suis un gentilhomme.
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Date: 2010-01-12 04:10 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2010-01-12 04:10 pm (UTC)Thank you kindly, ma'am.
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Date: 2010-01-12 04:11 pm (UTC)Thanks!
*blushes modestly*