File Size: 3675 KB
Print Length: 352 pages
Publisher: Ediciones Nowtilus (November 8, 2011)
Publication Date: November 8, 2011
Sold by: Digital Services LLC
Language: Spanish
ASIN: B0064JVTW4
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This is definitely a fun book to read, especially in a circle of friends or family. It is also a quite useful tool to create a sense of some skepticism in everybody.Most of our contemporaries smile regarding the credulity of our forbearers, of ancient superstitions and even in some cases of religions and mystical beliefs. What those same persons don’t realize is that they are as easily fooled as the ones they criticize. The lie or the fraud just needs to adapt and be delivered in a different package.I always loved history and archeology, and as almost all who cherished that interest I thrilled and stood in awe by the wonderful work of Professor Shinichi Fujimura…until the day when reporters filmed him planting the amazing discoveries he would make in the following day. That was a rude awakening. From that time I learned that an immense amount of scientific data is simply fabricated or stolen from another investigator; many times the purpose isn’t financial returns but glory and recognition.In this book you will find frauds and mistakes of science, medicine, politics, finance, gambling, warfare, etc. Most of them are actually quite funny! The writer as a good sense of humor and presents an enormous amount of short stories that will make you look at the world in a slightly different way.But this book has severe shortcomings. The author used almost only secondary sources to analyze all the data, as you can confirm reading the bibliography. He studied an impressive amount of compilation of facts, but he didn’t checked out the hundreds of situations he presents. I admit that it would be quite a task, but it was a needed one. Or else the author’s criticism of the credulity of doctors, scientists, art critics and the public in general also applies to himself!
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