Dr David Robert Grimes is a physicist, cancer researcher and science journalist. Born in Dublin in 1985, he is affiliated with Oxford University and Queen's University, Belfast. He contributes to both the BBC and RTE discussing science, politics and media and has written for the Guardian, Irish Times and the Spectator, among others.
'From anti-vaxxers to Dunning-Kruger, from homeopathy and astrology
to "false balance" (what I call the BBC Fallacy), from misused
statistics to nuclear brinkmanship, our irrationality could be our
undoing. A book exposing the irrational ape and teaching us to mend
our ways might so easily have become all preachy and teachy.
Instead, such is David Robert Grimes's storytelling skill, his book
is an unstoppable page-turner. If our leaders were forced to
read this book, the world would be a safer place.' -- Richard
Dawkins
'A beautifully reasoned book about our own unreasonableness'
-- Robin Ince
'Grimes's book addresses an all-too-urgent contemporary
political question: how do we protect our societies and ourselves
from charlatans and fools?...It brings a fresh perspective,
and has been painstakingly researched. This spirited cocktail of
data leavened with anecdotes is served up in Grimes's trademark
provocative, combative style...a highly creditable
debut from a skilled communicator.' -- John Gibbons * Irish Times *
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