The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers
”A  symptomatic tour of the real sense of anxiety about the  disenchantment  of all those qualities that make us feel most alive and  unique in the  world.”—The New York Times Book Review“A witty critique of scientific overreach that celebrates the totality of human achievement.” —Kirkus Reviews"There’s  certainly a very real need to march on that citadel, because the idea  that there can be only one kind of truth has to be deeply damaging to  the intellectual development of a culture.” —Slate"His  brisk takedowns of Hitchens, Hawking, Krauss, Lehrer and others are  sharp and necessary, wielding elementary logic against figures who  should know better. [White shows] just how easily good science can shade into the self-aggrandizing ideology of scientism."—Mark Kingwell,The Globe and MailPraise for Curtis White andThe Middle Mind“Cogent, acute, beautiful, merciless, and true.”—David Foster Wallace“Re-visioning the world takes brawling muscle and a sneer. Curtis White gots that.”—Andrei Codrescu“The most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment . . . White exalts the subversive pleasures of the imagination, not simply as a tactic for individual psychic survival, but also as a spark for collective engagement.”—Will Blythe“Curtis White writes out of an admirable intellectual sophistication combined with viscerality, pain, and humor.”—John Barth“A master of bewitchments, parodies, and dazzling tropes.”—Paul Auster“Not the least pleasure in reading the book resides in the refreshing malevolent irony that transpires from every page. Absolutely indispensable.”—Slavoj Žižek