An edition of The Experts speak (1984)

The Experts Speak

The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation

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The Experts Speak by Christopher Cerf, Victor S. Navasky, Victor Navasky
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An edition of The Experts speak (1984)

The Experts Speak

The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation

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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 through-the-looking-glass chronicle of human knowledge: the story of what was and is so, as seen through the story of what we wanted to and did believe."--BOOK JACKET.

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Pantheon Books
Pages
391

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The experts speak: the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation
1998, Villard Books
in English - 1st rev. ed.
Cover of: The Experts Speak
The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation
September 9, 1990, Random House Value Publishing
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Experts speak
The Experts speak: the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation
1984, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The Experts speak
The Experts speak: the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation
1984, Pantheon Books, Pantheon
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The Experts Speak
The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation
January 1984, Pantheon Books
Cover of: The Experts Speak
The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation
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First Sentence

"In the eighteenth century, Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788), director of the Royal Museum of France, calculated that the history of the earth, from the creation to the end of organic life, would last for a period of exactly 168,123 years, approximately half of which had already elapsed."

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Open Library
OL7460780M
ISBN 10
0394520610
ISBN 13
9780394520612
LibraryThing
464586
Goodreads
801246

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OL1845121W

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First Sentence

"In the eighteenth century, Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788), director of the Royal Museum of France, calculated that the history of the earth, from the creation to the end of organic life, would last for a period of exactly 168,123 years, approximately half of which had already elapsed."

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