Books I have enjoyed - commentary to follow

[wellinghall]

McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture

Bad Science, with an associated website at http://www.badscience.net/

The Long Ships

In Search of England

A History of Modern Britain

Wartime: Britain 1939-1945

Comments

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

A cut, perchance?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Done!

[tree_and_leaf]

Ooh, HV Morton's fun.

[clarienne.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that. In particular the HV Morton looks interesting.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I was at Magdalen with Ben Goldacre (possibly the year below me, although I don't remember him). My impression of his Bad Science work is that the stuff he does on medicine issues is very good (particularly the anti-McKeith campaign). However he seems to pontificate on areas where I can't imagine he has any more knowledge than the next person, or at least the next educated person. I remember seeing something by him on his website a while ago on some piece of hi-fi equipment, and I asked myself "This guy's a junior doctor. How is he able to say that the electrical engineers and hi-fi experts who work for serious hi-fi magazines and manufacturers are wrong?"

So I remain sceptical about some of his scepticism...