u/HowlingStrike

Finished it feeling mad and sad but glad I read it.

What a life this guy lead and what a character. This book was mostly very interesting and often quite funny. The only downside for me was that sometimes he was a bit of a womaniser. Overall I enjoyed it, it has some really good and varied anectodes in it. I also really liked how it closed with encouragement for useful science that explores vs science that confirms what you want to know.

It read, to me, as a fairly hard and fast manifesto but it has sources for all her claims and when you take the message with the context she's studied this stuff for years and is a peer reviewed researcher makes it more impactful.

I enjoyed it but ultimately I found a little depressing. I feel I can talk about some of the concepts a little better than I did before as well which was my goal.