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53 of 59 people found the following review helpful.
In a journalist's entertaining engagement with strange believers, science is a major casualty.
By Peter Bianco
This is a book about unreliable observers written by an unreliable observer. The author states that “most humans, not least myself, are an incoherent mess of madness and sanity.” While the self-acknowledged irrationality of the investigator of irrationality makes for dramatic situations that the author skillfully weaves into his story, it also leads to confusion in the author’s search for truth. Storr openly confesses his strong sympathy for the eccentrics he interviews, and demonstrates a painful (if often entertaining) difficulty in confronting and conclusively reporting the errors in their positions, whether they be from an advocate of creationism or a proponent of the moral innocence of Adolph Hitler. In contrast to his emotional attraction to the irrationalists he interviews, Storr also exhibits an open hostility to debunkers of irrational beliefs. He strangely includes among his subjects one such person, James Randi, and his interview with him is the only antagonistic one in the book. While Storr is often good at identifying irrational bias and its sources, he is not so good at separating the belief from the believer: Randi’s motivations for his investigations may (or may not) be irrational ones, but they do not determine the truth or falsity of his conclusions.
A corollary of Storr’s personal attraction to strange believers is his failure (or lack of desire) to grasp the essentials of the scientific method. He frequently ignores large bodies of data and well-confirmed theory that demonstrate the falsity of the positions of his irrational subjects. For example, in his discussion of homeopathy he never cites the basic dose-response phenomenon universally observed in medical science, nor does he even hint at the existence of a massive body of high-quality, strong scientific evidence that ESP phenomena do not exist. He refers to “scientific dogma” as if scientific claims against various irrational beliefs are as dogmatic as the irrational claims themselves; thus all claims, in the author’s emotional view, seem pretty much the same at heart, and Randi is as wacky as is the man who claims that he communicates by mental telepathy with his terrier. But most damaging for his analyses, Mr. Storr shows no appreciation for the cumulative effect of the scientific process, how science works through the accretion of the results of hypothesis testing by scientists who examine each other’s work and either confirm or falsify existing claims, leading to a net result that is independent of individual emotion and bias.
On the positive side, Storr’s account of the origin and nature of human irrationality is revealing, clear and convincing. His writing is effective and often highly evocative. And perhaps most usefully, his highly personal and confessedly muddled account of muddled thinkers invites the reader to reflect on the reader's own biases and on the virtues (and difficulty) of achieving modesty and balance in striving after truth.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Kudos!
By Frank Landry
Well done!
65 of 71 people found the following review helpful.
It Grew on Me
By Book Fanatic
This book is subtitled Adventures With the Enemies of Science and so I expected it to be a hard-hitting book debunking the ideas of psuedoescience and the extreme fringe. That is not at all what it turned out to be and at first I felt the author was much too sympathetic with the "unpersuadables". But as I continued reading through the book I found myself appreciating the author's perspective more and more and his approach which refuses to demonize the "enemies of science".
This book provides the reader with a view of what the unpersuadables are like that at times is exasperating and at other times is fairly sympathetic. In the end one is left with the conclusion that they are our fellow human beings and are often just as sincere if not more so in their beliefs than the skeptics are.
The stories in this book are entertaining and I think they are worth considering. We do not have to demonize one another just because we disagree whether the positions one holds or disputes are mainstream or on the fringes.
Recommended.
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