Easy read, discussing what I would call the rejecting of expertise in America in favor of emotion and passion (i.e., it used to mean something if you went to MIT, now it is looked at with suspicion by many). The book is a unique combination of frustrating and humorous, as reading about dinosaurs with saddles and conspiracy theories (it was the Masons after all) are funny, especially in Pierce's writing style, yet the subject matter is frustrating because, as the author so persuasively lays out, this type of thinking used to be relegated to the fringe, and now is controlling a large share of the mainstream. (Digression - One point in the book is about the recent polling in the presidential election about "who you would rather have a beer with?" When in the world did such a question become relevant to who should be President, for who should be in control of the largest nuclear arsenal created? Do we really want a drinking buddy to have all that power and control? End digression/rant). I think it leaves readers with the burning question of how do we get back to valuing expertise and rational thought, as opposed to passion and emotion (i.e., the more fervently I believe something, the more true it becomes)? Where do we end up if we continue to be ruled by thinking and ideas that should be on the fringe, as opposed to the mainstream. A funny book at times, but I think it will leave most who read it frustrated with the way society's thinking is progressing.