Tag: Stupidity

Free Download Bernard Stiegler, "States of Shock: Stupidity and Knowledge in the 21st Century"
English | ISBN: 0745664946 | 2015 | 200 pages | AZW3 | 579 KB
In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regulating market, but today, argues Stiegler, this regression of reason has led to societies dominated by unreason, stupidity and madness. However, philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century abandoned the critique of political economy, and poststructuralism left its heirs helpless and disarmed in face of the reign of stupidity and an economic crisis of global proportions.

Free Download John Stossel, "Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel – Why Everything You Know is Wrong"
English | 2007 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0786893931, 1401302548 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
Now in paperback: The major national bestseller that the New York Times says "tosses sand on liberal sacred cows"John Stossel – award-winning journalist, tireless consumer-rights crusader, and anchor of ABC’s newsmagazine 20/20 – has built his reputation on his willingness to debunk conventional wisdom, no matter the source. In his latest New York Times bestseller, which has sold more than 200,000 copies in hardcover, he busts the myths, lies, and downright stupidity clogging media outlets on all sides of the spectrum. Taking a shovel to the heaps of misinterpretations and outright mistakes passing for "fact" these days, Stossel proves:-That contrary to popular belief, Americans have more free time now than ever before; -How DDT could actually save millions of lives annually, if only we hadn’t been wrongly convinced it caused cancer; -That Republicans don’t shrink government – they expand it; -Why bottled water is a rip-off (hint: not only doesn’t it taste better than tap, it’s no healthier either!); -How "defective product" lawsuits end up depriving us of safer products; -Why it’s okay to marry your cousin; -And much, much more.Bursting with facts, sharp insights, and plain old common sense, Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity is a modern muckraking classic.

Free Download Morag G. Kerr, "Adequately Explained by Stupidity?: Lockerbie, luggage and lies"
English | 2013 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1783062509 | EPUB | 2,8 mb
Tunnel vision or organised cover-up? How the Lockerbie investigation got the wrong man. Twenty-five years after Maid of the Seas crashed on the town of Lockerbie, this groundbreaking book introduces an entirely new perspective on the controversial investigation and subsequent conviction. Concentrating almost entirely on the transfer baggage evidence, it exposes shocking deficiencies in both the police inquiry and the forensic investigation, which led the hunt in entirely the wrong direction. Cleverly constructed to lead the reader through the complexities of the case, the book provides insights which will be new to even the most seasoned Lockerbie pundit, while remaining accessible to those with little or no previous familiarity with the subject. The reader will see all the main aspects of the official account of the Lockerbie disaster comprehensively destroyed. This is the first book about Lockerbie to deal rigorously with the detail of the transfer baggage evidence. Dr. Kerr has been given access to reports, statements and photographs not previously available to the general public, and has analysed the information with forensic rigour. This analysis proves conclusively that the bomb that brought down the plane was introduced at Heathrow airport and not at Malta as claimed. The book is being published on the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster, which happened on 21st December 1988. Morag has been Secretary Depute of ‘Justice for Megrahi’ since 2010, and is the author of the widely-acclaimed pamphlet Lockerbie: Fact and Fiction. On 23rd December 1988, Morag was driving on the A74. This was the stimulus for her research into the subject.