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The risk of red herrings
I have always loved the work of David Quammen, someone I would describe as a science adventure writer. Quammen was in Seattle recently to promote his new book about the animal-human disease connection, Spillover. It’s getting good reviews, such as in Time magazine and the New York Times.
This is a non-review of Quammen’s book because I haven’t read it and missed the lecture.
My purpose here is only to use Quammen’s book tour to point out the risk of deadly red herrings. Continue reading