How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World max einstein Written from a twenty-first century

Written from a twenty-first century perspective and set within the realms of science fiction

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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World max einstein Written from a twenty-first centuryWhat characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo jumbo, that's what. In How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World, Francis Wheen brilliantly laments the extraordinary rise of superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria. From Middle Eastern fundamentalism to the rise of lotteries, astrology to mysticism, poststructuralism to the Third Way, Wheen shows that there has been a pervasive erosion of