Archive for August 8th, 2009
Recommended reading
If you liked “Don’t Get Fooled Again”, then you may also like (or find interesting):
Mistakes Were Made But Not By Me, Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
A Mind of Its Own: How your brain distorts and deceives, Cordelia Fine
The Cigarette Century, Allan M Brandt
Flat Earth News, Nick Davies
Mortal Questions, Thomas Nagel
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World, Francis Wheen
In Defence of History, Richard J Evans
Denying Aids, Seth Kalichman
Mortal Combat: AIDS Denialism and the struggle for anti-retrovirals in South Africa, Nicoli Nattrass
Bad Science, Ben Goldacre
Trick or Treatment?, Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
Second Front, John R Macarthur
Toxic Sludge is Good For You, John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
In Retrospect, Robert S McNamara
King Leopold’s Ghost, Adam Hochschild
Status Anxiety, Alain de Botton
Real England, Paul Kingsnorth
Counterknowledge, Damian Thompson
Mysticism and Logic, Bertrand Russell (free e-book version available here)
Radical then, Radical Now, Jonathan Sacks
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
Richard Wilson's blog 