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Thank you for this. This is exactly what I wished this book was like—in fact, I even said to a friend "Michael Pollan could've written it better." Good science writing is objective yet fascinated, open-minded, and explores all of the questions that it raises. This book, on the other hand, is written in a whimsical way that makes the actually very interesting facts within it just so difficult to swallow. The anthropomorphization and casual style that I think the author intended to act as sugar to help the medicine go down, so to speak, are so sickly artificial as to make you want to spit out the entire foul thing.
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Thank you for this. This is exactly what I wished this book was like—in fact, I even said to a friend "Michael Pollan could've written it better." Good science writing is objective yet fascinated, open-minded, and explores all of the questions that it raises. This book, on the other hand, is written in a whimsical way that makes the actually very interesting facts within it just so difficult to swallow. The anthropomorphization and casual style that I think the author intended to act as sugar to help the medicine go down, so to speak, are so sickly artificial as to make you want to spit out the entire foul thing.
