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The stupidity in this passage is hard to get my head around:

"Due to its industrial origins, the Second Law presents a definition of efficiency that favours high temperatures and the allocation of resources to big industry."

Every claim in that sentence is wrong or misleading in some way. Reading this book is like fact-checking a Trump speech. Ironic, considering the opposing political motives.

The amount of stupidity in this book is impressive. For example, the book presents Mitroff's study of Apollo program scientists who themselves studied Moon rocks as evidence that (all?) science is inherently subjective. Uh hello, did you notice that the Apollo program sent men to the Moon? Please tell me all the subjective ways to do that. Have any of these science critics heard of applied science?

A couple stumbles but a fascinating exploration of science’s hidden biases.

A couple stumbles but a fascinating exploration of science’s hidden biases.

Read these 72 pages in one sitting. Popper vs. Kuhn. Falsifiability vs Paradigms.