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What popular science books do you think gave have been so misguided, but so popular & persuasive, that's they've set back the progress of science in significant ways? My nomination: 'The mismeasure of man' (1981) by Stephen Jay Gould.pic.twitter.com/VQKhChVZ3f
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You win the interwebz today.
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Too few have read Gould to have an impact. I nominate 50 shades of grey.
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Gould's ideas have permeated Colleges of Education for two generations, shaping the views of millions of K-12 teachers.
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Not a science book, but the popular enterprise,
@thesecret, promotes the cognitive distortion of Thought-Action Fusion, which can be a nightmare for those with obsessive compulsive disorder:https://www.verywellmind.com/thought-action-fusion-and-ocd-2510478 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@lieberman_jason Two wonderful "nonfiction" books by two great writers that let me down by being fiction...pic.twitter.com/MZr86N0QXi
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Haha, yeah, I was going to say Castenada. Read it when I was 18.
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The biased polemic "Testosterone Rex" (2017) by Cordelia Fine -- which won a Royal Society prize.https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/09/21/testosterone-rex-a-biased-polemic-wins-the-royal-society-book-prize/ …
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I don't know whether it's held back progress, but Guns, Germs and Steel is similarly misguided, and influential. The Jonathan Anomaly/Greg Cochran review on Amazon deserves more helpful votes. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/0393317552/R3U3XWR0JMB0JA?ref=pf_vv_at_pdctrvw_srp …
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