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TOPIC: Curtis Yarrow
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Re:Curtis Yarrow 2 Weeks, 5 Days ago
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Re:Curtis Yarrow 2 Weeks, 4 Days ago
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Green Man wrote:
I can't take anything from The Guardian seriously, you don't get sued and settle out of court for nothing. Wikipedia is a joke also.
As you're clearly a man of impeccable judgement and discrimination, routinely disdaining any source I post, feel free to post another of your more reliable sources from YouTube.
Yuval Noah Harari does seem to be highly reliable...
Harari's popular publications are considered to belong to the Big History genre, with Ian Parker writing in 2020 in The New Yorker that "Harari did not invent Big History, but updated it with hints of self-help and futurology, as well as a high-altitude, almost nihilistic composure about human suffering."[2]
His work has been more negatively received in academic circles, with Christopher Robert Hallpike stating in a 2020 review of Sapiens that "one has often had to point out how surprisingly little he seems to have read on quite a number of essential topics. It would be fair to say that whenever his facts are broadly correct they are not new, and whenever he tries to strike out on his own he often gets things wrong, sometimes seriously." Hallpike further states that "we should not judge Sapiens as a serious contribution to knowledge but as 'infotainment', a publishing event to titillate its readers by a wild intellectual ride across the landscape of history, dotted with sensational displays of speculation, and ending with blood-curdling predictions about human destiny. By these criteria, it is a most successful book."[45]
In 2020, philosopher Mike W. Martin criticized Harari's view in a journal article, stating that "[Harari] misunderstands human rights, inflates the role of science in moral matters, and fails to reconcile his moral passion with his moral skepticism."[46]
In July 2022, the American magazine Current Affairs published an article titled "The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari" by neuroscientist Darshana Narayanan, which pointed to the lack of scientific rigor in his books. "The best-selling author is a gifted storyteller and popular speaker," she wrote. "But he sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors."[47]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Noah_Harari#Critical_reception
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