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"The Experts Speak systematically catalogues, footnotes, and sets straight these and a couple of thousand other examples of expert misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies. The experts have been wrong about everything under, including, and beyond the sun: time, space, the sexes, the races, the environment, economics, politics, crime, education, the media, history, and science. In this expanded and updated edition (now more error-filled than ever), we see just how much the experts don't know. But the book also goes deeper, presenting a…

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5 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 1990
    Random House Value Publishing · 9780517056233
  • Paperback · English
    Villard Books · 9780965064613
  • Other · English · 1998
    Villard Books · 445 pages · 9780679778066
  • Other · English · 1984
    Pantheon Books · 391 pages · 9780394520612
  • Other · English · 1984
    Pantheon Books · 391 pages · 9780394713342
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