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Fun to read, but hard to trust. Mostly good, but he is very sympathetic to homeopathy. He doesn't out-right promote it, but he isn't critical of it either and his evidence in favor of it seems cherry-picked. Placebo chapter seems out of date, and cold fusion chapter seems a bit optimistic. The chapters about actual scientific mysteries seem pretty great, but his bad ones make me wonder if they're equally poorly researched. | Fun to read, but hard to trust. Mostly good, but he is very sympathetic to homeopathy. He doesn't out-right promote it, but he isn't critical of it either and his evidence in favor of it seems cherry-picked. Placebo chapter seems out of date, and cold fusion chapter seems a bit optimistic. The chapters about actual scientific mysteries seem pretty great, but his bad ones make me wonder if they're equally poorly researched. | ||
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Revision as of 17:07, 17 November 2014
Fun to read, but hard to trust. Mostly good, but he is very sympathetic to homeopathy. He doesn't out-right promote it, but he isn't critical of it either and his evidence in favor of it seems cherry-picked. Placebo chapter seems out of date, and cold fusion chapter seems a bit optimistic. The chapters about actual scientific mysteries seem pretty great, but his bad ones make me wonder if they're equally poorly researched.
