Bibliograph

The experts speak, the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation, Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky

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Label

The experts speak, the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation, Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-397) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The experts speak

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

38295239

Responsibility statement

Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky

Review

The Experts Speak systematically catalogues, footnotes, and sets straight these and a couple of thousand other examples of expert misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies. The experts have been wrong about everything under, including, and beyond the sun: time, space, the sexes, the races, the environment, economics, politics, crime, education, the media, history, and science. In this expanded and updated edition (now more error-filled than ever), we see just how much the experts don't know. But the book also goes deeper, presenting a through-the-looking-glass chronicle of human knowledge: the story of what was and is so, as seen through the story of what we wanted to and did believe

Sub title

the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation

Table Of Contents

Our planet earth: its place in time and space -- The mysteries of life on earth -- Man, the social animal -- Arts and leisure -- Homo faber: man, the toolmaker -- Of peoples and civilizations -- The March of science -- The end

Target audience

adult

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Contributor