If you like a lot of flowery language than this book is for you.
Here is a random passage from the first chapter - "These ignoramus empirics further attempted to mask their ineptitude behind a rhetorical phantasmagoria, trading upon esoteric words and pretentious pseudo-technicalities."
I don't know what I was expecting from this book, but what I didn't like was the constant mention of old hand bills then a page and a half of their interpretation. Language hasn't changed that terribly. I didn't need the obvious explanation that an advertisement was name dropping.
I also don't agree with the author, Roy Porter, in that a person is a quack unless their medicine has been tested and regulated by society.
Here is a random passage from the first chapter - "These ignoramus empirics further attempted to mask their ineptitude behind a rhetorical phantasmagoria, trading upon esoteric words and pretentious pseudo-technicalities."
I don't know what I was expecting from this book, but what I didn't like was the constant mention of old hand bills then a page and a half of their interpretation. Language hasn't changed that terribly. I didn't need the obvious explanation that an advertisement was name dropping.
I also don't agree with the author, Roy Porter, in that a person is a quack unless their medicine has been tested and regulated by society.
