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Review title: Interesting idea, but...
Product review: At the start of this interseting sounding book, the author points out that we should not judge scientific blunders with 20/20 hindsight. After saying this, he goes on to do just that in most cases. Many "blunders" were simply hypotheses that turned out to be wrong as new information came in or simply beurocratic errors.Most annoying is his tendancy to stand up on a soapbox and denounce the evils of anything that is not based on "the epitome of rational thought which is science" (or words to that effect). Psychoanalysis, economics, and even medicine come under attack for not meeting his criteria for science and therefore constituting blunders of the highest magnitude. Combined with the frequent errors in word use and scientific information, this holier-than-thou attitude makes it clear that he is more interested in scoring points against certain disciplins than pursuing the putative purpose of the book.
