Why Science Matters
by Mark Henderson
- My rating: Rated 4 out of 5
- Read: October 2020
- Published: 2012
- Pages: 336
- Category: Science and nature
My review
This book is fantastic and I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in progress, truth and science communication.
It has only two minuses: First, it's almost ten years old. It kept me thinking almost all the time if things have gotten better… or worse. Second, it's too much focused on examples from the USA and, especially, from the UK. Not coming from any of those countries, I was at times not very interested in the number of details Henderson gave of each story.
Perhaps, the most interesting for me was the chapter about the environment where he attacks radical greens and explains brilliantly his arguments for nuclear power and GM crops.
One of the best quotes:
"Science is the best method that humanity has for solving problems that don't yet have an answer"