{"id":427,"date":"2006-07-25T08:26:36","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T08:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/25\/useless-book-review\/"},"modified":"2006-07-25T08:26:36","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T08:26:36","slug":"useless-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/25\/useless-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Useless Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <cite>New York Times<\/cite> offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/07\/25\/science\/25books.html?ex=1311480000&#038;en=a4954840352b40d7&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">review of several books on science and religion<\/a> today, including a new screed by Dawkins, Daniel Dennett&#8217;s book from a little while back, and several books attempting to find common ground between science and religion, by Francis Collins, Owen Gingerish, Joan Roughgarden, and E. O. Wilson. This is probably in the top ten least useful book reviews you&#8217;ll read this year.<\/p>\n<p>The problem isn&#8217;t with the subject matter, though I&#8217;m sure some at ScienceBlogs will object to the very concept of all save the Dawkins and Dennett. The problem is that they&#8217;re trying to talk about seven different books in two lousy screens worth of text. This is just about enough space to let you know that these books exist and have been published, but not quite enough to tell you whether any of them are actually worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a nice article to be written doing an extensive compare-and-contrast between these, with a discussion of the relative merits of each, and some evaluation of what they have to say about the topic. This is not that article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times offers a review of several books on science and religion today, including a new screed by Dawkins, Daniel Dennett&#8217;s book from a little while back, and several books attempting to find common ground between science and religion, by Francis Collins, Owen Gingerish, Joan Roughgarden, and E. O. Wilson. This is probably&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/25\/useless-book-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Useless Book Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}