Non-fiction publishing is failing its readers. It’s pumping out books with supposedly game-changing concepts, with out bothering to make sure primary 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 at last exploded after I reviewed Yuval Noah Harari’s new e-book Nexus, which is filled with ill-supported nonsense, together with a hopelessly incoherent definition of the idea of data.
Think about 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…
