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Thread #72816   Message #1260280
Posted By: GUEST
30-Aug-04 - 09:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: Doomsday?... 30 years to go?
Subject: RE: BS: Doomsday?... 30 years to go?
"I have only one quibble with such type of books. They should be sold in the fiction part of the bookshops and non as nonfiction."

Wolfgang,

That would put them in there with things like the various Almanacs that show the United States and Canada to have literacy rates of 99%--a little piece of non-fiction which is pure bullshit.

Science protects itself, even when it's wrong. Science is not necessarily about knowledge anymore, but more and more about politics and funding. So, maybe everything sold in bookstores, whether fiction or non-fiction should be labelled "OPINION" and then readers could decide what, if anything, makes more sense.