John Grant’s Corrupted Science Proves Its Point
Jeff VanderMeer • April 8th, 2008 @ 4:52 pm • Culture
Well, my Amazon post on Grant’s Corrupted Science kinda proves its point, with the knee-jerk reaction to it from one poster in the comments thread but also with the very sneaky Amazon reviews of the book by two stealthers. Anyway, it’s a great book and deserves your attention.
Jeff
April 8, 2008 at 6:31 pm
How come the Amazon blog got overrun by freepers anyway?
(I first noticed this phenomenon when reading the incredibly depressing thread about Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke)
April 8, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Gee, Godwin’s Law on the very first comment. I think that counts as some sort of Internet Home Run.
April 8, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Is it bad that I’m more interested in the book because I saw Stalin on one of the covers?
April 8, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Everyone loves Stalin, Larry. Studies have shown that issues of Maxim, Entertainment Weekly, and People with pictures of Stalin on the cover sell over 150% of those magazines’ average circulation.
April 8, 2008 at 7:12 pm
No, wait, I’m thinking of Angelina Jolie, but my point remains valid.
April 8, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Honestly, I feel like offering a refund if anyone who orders it doesn’t like it. It’s such a great book.
Angelina Jolie? Jeez. Way to distract us all.
JV
April 8, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I’m tempted to buy the book, claim I didn’t like it to get the refund, and spend the entire time writing Stalin/Angelina slash fiction. Win-win, no?
April 8, 2008 at 10:15 pm
So if Stalin and Angelina get together can we call them “Stangelina”?
April 8, 2008 at 10:21 pm
I’m a bit too busy now picturing their hypothetical love child to think of any alternate names for that pairing. This topic, however, demands a Hugo-worthy short story to be written, stat!
April 8, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Me, I got a question: why do some people think that by demanding other people read the book for them, they’d get all the answers the want? Can’t he read the book on his own? Geez…
April 9, 2008 at 5:04 am
That douche bag in the Amazon comments sounds like my brother used to. I convinced him that the Earth is more than 6,000 years old and that dinosaur fossils are not just some sick joke from God, so now he’s forsaken Christianity for Quakerism.
April 9, 2008 at 8:00 am
Between the posts for these books on Amazon and the Irrational Atheist on Scalzi’s site, I’m starting to think that debate is not possible in an internet world/blog comment world. Has it always been that idiots will flame away at a book without giving due diligence to what it says? Is this something new or just more pronounced because the internet doesn’t censor out stupidity? I’m Christian-ish, but reading that DB’s comments on Amazon makes me shudder to be included in a crowd that narrow-minded. We Christians get a bad name for the lunatic fringes like him. As a disclaimer, not all of us are homophobic, abortion-clinic bombers, some of us actually try to live that “love thy neighbor” philosophy. Well, metaphorically live it anyway. Living it literally is just too expensive what with divorces and having to move after a break up.
Those look like interesting books. I might have to check them out.
April 9, 2008 at 9:19 am
The thing is…they’re mostly about topics other than science/religion.
JV
April 9, 2008 at 10:37 am
Jeff, thanks for bringing these books to our attention, I’ve moved them to the top of my want list. I’d have probably bought them anyway, but the comments just show what pertinent subjects these are to the contemporary age.
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