The Irrational Ape by David Robert Grimes
How critical thinking and scientific method can help us to make the right decisions and spot fake news.
'From anti-vaxxers to Dunning-Kruger, from homeopathy and astrology to “false balance” (what I call the BBC Fallacy), from misused statistics to nuclear brinkmanship, our irrationality could be our undoingA book exposing the irrational ape and teaching us to mend our ways might so easily have become all preachy and teachy. Instead, such is David Robert Grimes’s storytelling skill, his book is an unstoppable page-turner. If our leaders were forced to read this book, the world would be a safer place.' -- Richard Dawkins
'A beautifully reasoned book about our own unreasonableness' -- Robin Ince
'Grimes’s book addresses an all-too-urgent contemporary political question: how do we protect our societies and ourselves from charlatans and fools?...It brings a fresh perspective, and has been painstakingly researched. This spirited cocktail of data leavened with anecdotes is served up in Grimes’s trademark provocative, combative style...a highly creditable debut from a skilled communicator.' -- John Gibbons * Irish Times *
'A beautifully reasoned book about our own unreasonableness' -- Robin Ince
'Grimes’s book addresses an all-too-urgent contemporary political question: how do we protect our societies and ourselves from charlatans and fools?...It brings a fresh perspective, and has been painstakingly researched. This spirited cocktail of data leavened with anecdotes is served up in Grimes’s trademark provocative, combative style...a highly creditable debut from a skilled communicator.' -- John Gibbons * Irish Times *
Dr David Robert Grimes is a physicist, cancer researcher and and science journalist. Born in Dublin in 1985, he is affiliated with Oxford University and Queen's University, Belfast. He contributes to both the BBC and RTE discussing science, politics and media and has written for the Guardian, Irish Times and the Spectator, among others.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781471178252 |
| ISBN 10 | 1471178250 |
| Title | The Irrational Ape |
| Author | David Robert Grimes |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Year published | 2019-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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