{"id":262579,"date":"2024-10-17T14:43:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T14:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/17\/readers-deserve-better-from-popular-science-books\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:49","slug":"readers-deserve-better-from-popular-science-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/17\/readers-deserve-better-from-popular-science-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers deserve better from popular science books"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Non-fiction publishing is failing its readers. It is pumping out books with supposedly game-changing ideas, without bothering to ensure basic accuracy. These tomes have the appearance of academic work, but none of the rigour.<\/p>\n

My frustration about this has been building for years and finally exploded when I reviewed<\/a> Yuval Noah Harari\u2019s new book Nexus<\/i>, which is full of ill-supported nonsense, including a hopelessly incoherent definition of the concept of information.<\/p>\n

Consider Johann Hari: formerly a journalist at The Independent<\/i>, he was caught plagiarising and resigned. He has since produced a string of unreliable books about medical controversies. Lost Connections\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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