Title: This Book Says More About Its Advocates
Review: This book reads more like a Discover bugga-boo ufo visitation "documentary" than a serious work of investigative journalism. The science is shifty and sometimes downright incorrect or outdated or taken out of context. The prose is poorly written, taking more rhetorical pointers from Watchtower pamphlets than from, say, Gleick. Ginenthal clearly had a point-of-view before writing the book and the things he excludes is more revealing than what he includes. The impression with which I am left is that those who side with Velikovsky will pick up this book, and those who read only Sagan will be left thinking V was an ill-meaning idiot. If anything, this book just goes to show that those who proclaim that it is a verdict against science or Sagan choose their books according to their views, irrespective of the quality therein, and not based on quality writing, investigating, or balanced presentation.
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