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. These tomes have the looks of educational work, however not one of the rigour.
My frustration about this has been constructing for years and eventually 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 idea of data.
Take into account Johann Hari: previously a journalist at The Impartial, he was caught plagiarising and resigned. He has since produced a string of unreliable books about medical controversies. Misplaced Connections…
