The Natural History of Nonsense"Evans was a public skeptic of the forties and fifties and he wrote this book to prove that an awful lot of people are stupid and gullible and superstitious and not likely to take the scientifically enlightened opinions of their more educated betters for gospel truth. He retails some great anecdotes in several chapters, though certain others (on race relations and differences, for example) have aged poorly. His writing is generally acceptable and sometimes, in fact, he's quite funny. But more often he's merely snide."-- review on Good Reads |
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