Christopher Chabris, The New York Time, reviews Jonah Lehrer’s new book, “Imagine: How Creativity Works”:
Malcolm Gladwell says on the book’s jacket that Lehrer “knows more about science than a lot of scientists.” However he has determined this, it cannot be from this book, which includes many elementary errors.
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This may sound like nitpicking. But science writers, like teachers, have an obligation to get the facts right. When enough details are wrong, readers may lose confidence in the big picture.
As Dr. Sheldon Cooper would jest, perhaps Mr. Lehrer would like some aloe vera because he just got burned.