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Title: Horrible!! - Gaping holes in history and understanding
Review: I stumbled upon this book and read a few lines, convinced it looked like an informative book. I was unpleasantly surprised during the next week as I tried to digest it. I have a few comments: His story of Columbus's "discovery" of America fails to even briefly mention how he betrayed, slaughtered and enslaved the native americans. Unbelievable. My other brief comment: as a scientist, I was first amused, then offended, by his discussion of the scientific method. This guy has absolutely no concept of how scientists think (he claims it's all math, no ideas/concepts); his sweeping generalizations and stereotypes completely ignore current research in the neurosciences regarding learning and memory and the mind/body problem, not to mention the rest of the entire field of biomedical sciences. Overall, I found this book to be irritatingly simplified. I strongly discourage wasting your time reading it - I took my copy back to the bookstore!!
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