The Prevalence of Nonsense

by Ashley Montagu

The authors explore scores of long-lived errors that mankind solemnly accepts as gospel, no matter how often and irrefutably each piece of nonsense is exposed

Genres: Nonfiction

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1967

About the author

Books, such as The Natural Superiority of Women (1953), of Ashley Montagu, originally Israel Ehrenberg, a British-American, helped to popularize anthropology.

As a young man, he changed his name to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu". After relocating to the United States, he used the name "Ashley Montagu."

This humanist of Jewish ancestry related topics, such as race and gender, to politics and development. He served as the rapporteur or appointed investigator in 1950 for the The Race Question , statement of educational, scientific, and cultural organization of United Nations.

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Reviews

[Jenny Stice]

Originally published in 1967, book about assumptions and stories people accept as truth. Not every idea felt groundbreaking, but I enjoyed the author’s skepticism
on human behavior more than the overall argument.