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Science Friction

Michael Shermer

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"Science Fiction is a book of essays, and they're not even really properly called essays, I don't feel. They're really more a collection of writings I think that he began to gather together and sort of eventually be able to gather them into a book, and they seem to be roughly unified under this general theme of sort of friction between I suppose how science ought to be done and how it actually does get done. The beginning of the book is more about pseudoscience type stuff, and along the way, there are critical looks at actual science, especially anthropology. There's one about the — a book about the Yenamomo — Yamanano? I forget how it's spelled, people. What I guess I don't like about the book is maybe the same thing that I do like. It's got this range of essays loosely grouped into four sections, I think, and in terms of it hanging together as you go, in terms of feeling that there's a pace to each section, that's sort of loosey goosey. It would be a great book for historians who have been loosely, very peripherally interested in history of science of cultural history, intellectual history, to read because it is written by a historian. It is — I think — although I'm not a historian, really, although I did take a Darwin — Darwinian Revolution history class in high school — high school — college! I think that historians would — that it would resonate, his approach, where he comes from at this __________ would resonate for you. This is a four-star book. It's — there's too much — too many interesting and diverse things to include in the book to even giving it a three."