Nonscience
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Nonscienceis a 1971 book which claims to have the longest and most complex title in publishing history.
Its full title isNonscience and the Pseudotransmogrificationalific Egocentrified Reorientational Proclivities Inherently Intracorporated In Expertistical Cerebrointellectualised Redeploymentation with Special Reference to Quasi-Notional Fashionistic Normativity, The Indoctrinationalistic Methodological Modalities and Scalar Socio-Economic Promulgationary Improvementalisationalism Predelineated Positotaxically Toward Individualistified Mass-Acceptance Gratificationalistic Securipermanentalisationary Professionism, or How To Rule The World,London: Wolfe Publishing (ISBN0-7234-0449-6). The book was updated and reissued in 2020 asNonscience Returnsby the Curtis Press.[1][2]
Its authorBrian J. Fordpokes fun at those who conceal their lack of real expertise by using long and complicated words, whilst making the serious point that many people are fooled by these so-called experts. Some consider the book prescient, thinking that modern society, where decisions are taken by unseen experts, is much as Ford predicted.
Spanish edition
[edit]In the Spanish edition the title was rendered asComo se falsifica la Ciencia; la Nonciencia y las proclividades Reorientacionales egocentrificadas pseudotransmigrificacionalificas inheremente intracorporadas a la Redesplegamentacion Expertistica Cerebrointelecualizada, con especial referencia a la Normatividad Modaistica Cuasi-nocional, las Modilidades Metodologicas adoctrinamientisticas y el Perfeccionamientalismo Escelar Socioeconomico Promulgacionario predelineado Postitotaxativaments Hacia el Profesionalismo Seguripermanentalinicario Gratificionalistico Individualistificado el la Aceptacion de las Masas, o Como Regir el Mundo[translation by Oscar Muslera], Libertad y Cambio, Buenos Aires: Granica Editor.
Reviews
[edit]In Britain, the book was reviewed in the following publications:
- TheTimes Higher Education Supplement,October 22, 1971
- Atticus Column,Sunday Times,October 24, 1971
- Irish Press,October 30, 1971
- Time Outmagazine, November 12, 1971.
- New Statesman,November 12, 1971.
- Nature:234, December 3, 1971
- TheTimes Educational Supplement,December 3, 1971
- Times Literary Supplement,January 21, 1972
- MensaJournal,January 22, 1972
The book was also featured on theBBCtelevision showTomorrow's World.
See also
[edit]- Fashionable Nonsense:Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
References
[edit]- ^Ford, Brian J. (October 2020).Nonscience Returns: WITH THE PSEUDOTRANSMOGRIFICATIONALIFIC EGOCENTRIFIED REORIENTATIONAL PROCLIVITIES INHERENTLY INTRACORPORATED IN EXPERTISTICAL... PROFESSIONALISM, OR HOW TO RULE THE WORLD.ISBN978-0993400254.
- ^Ayago, Keith (October 1, 2020). "Nonscience Returns". The London Economic.
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