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Title: Anti-quackery manual
Review: A highly readable and entertaining statement for science and good poetry and against quackery and superstition. Nonsense of all kinds is attacked; the religious variety, the esoteric, the leftist, the feminist... If you like a good polemic, this is a good place for it.The book should be required reading, but unfortunately the usual effect of such sermons is preaching to the choir. No serious afficionado of astrology will give up on the stars and their impact on us, no hyperfeminist will drop the idea that gravity and DNA are just artifacts of male chauvinism, no cultural relativist will accept stricter concepts of truth, no believer in transsubstantiation will accept the relevance of scientific reasoning, even if they could be co-erced to read this book.Reason does not appeal to un-reason.My favorite 'take away' from the book is the story of the superstitious pigeon in the pattern-less Skinner box.
