Thread by @HMEnglund

Lovande bokskörd idag.

1.) Everything Is Under Control av Robert Anton Wilson, 1st edition 1998

2.) The Golem, What You Should Know about Science av Harry Collins och Trevor Pinch, 1993, 10th printing 2008

3.) Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) av P. N. Furbank, 1948

1.) Slår upp sidan 34 och hittar direkt något intressant som jag lärt mig så sent som i år:

"Critics of the Fort Detrick theory of the origin of AIDS point out that AIDS appeared in Africa before it was found in Washington or New York, but Dr. Peter Duesberg has complicated

matters by arguing, with some plausibility, that African AIDS is a different disease from American AIDS, neither of them caused by HIV: The African variety, he says, results from malnutrition and the American strain from overuse of stimulant drugs (crack, crank, and poppers).

All of these compounds increase sensation during sex and tend to produce more undulating and prolonged orgasm, but they have a strong addiction potential and have been statistically linked with paranoia and heart attacks even before Dr. Duesberg blamed them for AIDS."

2.) Från bokens baksida:

"Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch liken science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, powerful yet potentially dangerous, a gentle, helpful creature that may yet run amok at any moment.

Through a series of intriguing case studies the authors debunk the traditional view that science is the straight-forward result of competent theorisation, observation and experimentation."

3.) Läser kort i avsnittet om Butlers bok Erewhon [Nowhere]:

"In Lord Lytton's The Coming Race, a book which appeared at the same time as Erewhon (Erewhon was for a time attributed to Lytton) there are several interesting side-lights upon Butler. Lytton's utopian fantasy is a

naïve piece of period writing, something in the Jules Vernian manner and written in the main as a piece of entertainment, but it none the less carries several recognizable themes of Butler's and Morris's attemps in the same genre."