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Title: Drek
Review: In case you've ever wondered what "drek" is, we have a fine example here. The book is bereft of intelligent analysis and is primarily a book about Horgan and his emotional state, since he has no discernible intellectual state.One reviewer called the book "sophomoric", a comment with which I disagree since I consider even that comment to be far more positive than the book merits.Horgan's basic thesis is that the major scientific fields have reached resolution aside from "details". Maybe I've missed some spectacular recent announcement but we still still have no idea what gravity is. Yes, I know it's supposed to be a function of mass (try proving that point) but that still doesn't tell us what gravity is, or why it is. Nor do we know how life began. Or what life is.Of course in Horgan's world these things are just details since the only truly important issue is his ego.
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