Non-fiction publishing is failing its readers. It’s pumping out books with supposedly game-changing concepts, with out bothering to make sure fundamental accuracy. Those tomes have the semblance of educational paintings, however not one of the rigour.
My frustration about this has been development for years and after all exploded after I reviewed Yuval Noah Harari’s new e book Nexus, which is stuffed with ill-supported nonsense, together with a hopelessly incoherent definition of the concept that of data.
Believe Johann Hari: previously a journalist at The Unbiased, he used to be stuck plagiarising and resigned. He has since produced a string of unreliable books about clinical controversies. Misplaced Connections…
