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Manny Rayner's book reviews
I love reviewing books - have been doing it at Goodreads, but considering moving here.
Currently reading
The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution
R in Action
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture
Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
Evolution from Space
I have always been vehemently opposed to the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools. It seemed to me that the proposal was without value, since ID made no predictions and was the work of scientific illiterates who refused even to admit that their idea amounted to alien intelligences tampering with the DNA of living creatures on Earth over a period of billions of years. Since the mainstream ID movement has repeatedly been unmasked as a transparent cover for Creationism and the Religious Right, it was only too obvious why they were unwilling to concede on the question of the alien manipulators. I could see no reason to encourage them.Well, I am not too proud to admit I was wrong.
The rest of this review is in my book If Research Were Romance and Other Implausible Conjectures
