Makeup Forever

Must read

Revisado: 08-06-23

Beautiful story about how propaganda skews so much and the struggles of those who endure radical regime change.

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Amazing!

Revisado: 06-12-21

Wonderful and sadly forgotten history. It is unfortunate that many women athletes still face a steeper hill to climb than men. Well worth a listen.

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Not surprising but nonetheless shocking.

Revisado: 11-16-20

If you want to understand reality, read this book. It’ll reality distresses you, don’t read this book.

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Hit and miss

Revisado: 03-09-20

This book is on a really important and worrying topic. The beginning and the end of the book are the best parts. However, there is a tendency of the author to generalize too much. He misses important nuances frequently. He often takes examples that support his position (I agree with him in terms of anti-expertism) and then uses them to paint a generalized picture. However, in reality things are more complex. I was most disappointed with Chapter 5, which amounts to a rather cherish complaint about students. I am an academic and yes of course you will have to deal with some students who do not communicate well or are rude/entitled. These students are a minority though and these situations are a learning opportunity. If your view of tenured faculty is that students should sit down and shut up because you have credentials and have read a topic a lot more than they have (of course you have!), then I think you're missing part of the point of being an instructor. I am at a 2nd tier public university. Perhaps my world is different to yours. Because the author took a few examples and then wrote the chapter as though painting all students with the same brush, he gave a false impression of campus life and ironically encouraged the death of expertise, because lots of these students will be future experts. If the public thinks students are generally entitled idiots then they are hardly likely going to be impressed by their future expertise. Removing this entire chapter would not diminish the value of the book at all. There is an interesting contradiction in the book too. While discussing a crackpot who claimed taking large amounts of Vitamin C was good for you, the author oddly switches to using Noam Chomsky as an example of how people should stick to their field; i.e. Chomsky is an important academic in the field of linguistics and should have nothing to say about foreign policy. This is an absurd argument because even though most people probably can only truly master a single topic in their lifetime, it doesn't mean no one can. Chomsky's clear capacity to do this is obvious since his writings on both topics are demonstrably correct. Again, nuances missed. My final comment regards the job of science. Please don't claim that science explains and should not make predictions. 'Doing' science is literally an exercise in testing predictions. If scientists didn't make predictions then they would have nothing to do. Worth a read still.

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