The science delusion: asking the big questions in a culture of easy answers

Brooklyn, N.Y.: Melville House (2013)
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The acclaimed social critic and author of the best-selling The Middle Mind presents a scathing assessment of modern detractors of science, citing the dangers of such figures as Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer while posing a defense of the tradition of Romanticism.

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