Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice by Alice Dreger

Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice

Alice Dreger

368 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history politics science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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"Smart, delightful . . . a splendidly entertaining education in ethics, activism, and science." --The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) An impassioned defense of intellectual freedom and a clarion call to intellectual responsibility, ...

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informative 88%
challenging 58%
reflective 47%
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inspiring 5%
tense 5%

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