Georges Charpak (1924–2010)

> Voici un livre qui nous fait partager une conception éthique de l'usage des outils formidables qu'il a puissamment contribué à développer la qualité de la transmission du Savoir aux plus jeunes. La description du fonctionnement de la coopération des chercheurs du CERN (ayant par exemple abouti à la naissance de l'Internet) m'apparaît comme un trop rare exemple de la mise en évidence de la puissance d'une coopération internationale rigoureuse et exigeante.
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A book about pseudoscience, explaining the fallacies that keep pseudoscience thriving. A thin book, easy to read, but rather thin on substance. The authors breeze through some relatively simple topics without much depth of exploration; they spend little time on each topic, and there is little to promote critical thinking in general. In addition, they make some standard errors themselves, starting out in the prologue by perpetuating the fallacy that our brains are adapted to the savannah and there hasn't been any real evolution in human history after that. This is as unlikely as any of the propositions they so readily debunk. Also, there is some indication that there is a certain ideological bent to their thinking rather than necessarily a deep commitment to bringing critical thinking to bear on all ideas, so they avoid questioning those things they believe in. A rather disappointing work.… (mehr)