Detect bullshit

More than a century ago the philosopher John Alexander Smith addressed a freshmen class at Oxford University saying: "Nothing you learn in the course of your studies hereafter will be of any use to you. Just remember this, if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking nonsense; This, in my opinion, is the main purpose - if not the only purpose - of education." This is the best book about bullshit, a book about how we are inundated with it, how we can ...