An edition of The Experts speak (1984)

The experts speak

the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation

1st rev. ed.

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An edition of The Experts speak (1984)

The experts speak

the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation

1st rev. ed.

by

  • 5 Want to read
  • 1 Have read

"The Experts Speak systematically catalogues, footnotes, and sets straight these and a couple of thousand other examples of expert misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies. The experts have been wrong about everything under, including, and beyond the sun: time, space, the sexes, the races, the environment, economics, politics, crime, education, the media, history, and science.

In this expanded and updated edition (now more error-filled than ever), we see just how much the experts don't know. But the book also goes deeper, presenting a through-the-looking-glass chronicle of human knowledge: the story of what was and is so, as seen through the story of what we wanted to and did believe."--BOOK JACKET.

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Villard Books
Language
English
Pages
445

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English Quotations, Quotations, English, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Misvattingen, Citaten, Engels, Quotations
Edition Availability
Cover of: The experts speak
The experts speak: the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation
1998, Villard Books
in English - 1st rev. ed.
Cover of: The Experts Speak
The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation
September 9, 1990, Random House Value Publishing
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Experts Speak
The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation
January 1984, Pantheon Books
Cover of: The Experts speak
The Experts speak: the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation
1984, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-397) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
082
Library of Congress
PN6083 .C37 1998, PN6083.C37 1998

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Pagination
xxix, 445 p. :
Number of pages
445

Edition Identifiers

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OL351802M
ISBN 10
0679778063
LCCN
98011252
OCLC/WorldCat
38295239
Library Thing
464586
Goodreads
836773

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OL1845121W

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"In the eighteenth century, Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788), director of the Royal Museum of France, calculated that the history of the earth, from the creation to the end of organic life, would last for a period of exactly 168,123 years, approximately half of which had already elapsed."

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