by Darryl Cunningham
172 Pages
The next time someone says, "If we evolved from monkeys, how come there are monkeys still around?", take a moment to wince and face-palm, and then kindly refer them to this book; the author does a fantastic job of simplifying and providing clear summaries of the biggest "controversies" of our time, and there are nice pictures, too! The term "controversy" is used loosely, because, as the author points out, much of what occurs in the public dialogue is faux debate, heavily influenced by moneyed interest groups, as is the case with think tanks who claim climate change either isn't real or isn't man made, while not being called out for taking money from oil companies. Even more crucially, the media tends to give the same credibility to an ideological stance and/or opinion as it does to fact-based scientific evidence, thereby legitimizing uninformed and often disingenuous talking points.
Not as acerbic in tone as I might make it out to be, this book is an entertaining reaction to the general trend in society of throwing critical thinking by the wayside and refusing to recognize evidence that challenges one's assumptions and world view.
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