Quite Interesting with some idiosyncrasies

Listeners of the podcast „No such thing as a fish“ will be aware that Dan Schreiber has an affinity to facts that are, well, not really facts but odd stories, conspiracy theories or fringe science. This book is dedicated to many of these. Interesting to listen to, sometimes I shook my head in disbelief; especially the chapter about nobel laureates who later in their career became proponents of odd theories, conspiracy myths or even outright racism is shocking. The chapter about Tu Youyou is amazing and moving.

Dan Schreiber has lived in many places, therefore his accent is sometimes odd (which is frequently made fun of in the aforementioned podcast). In the chapter about magicians he pronounces Roy Horn‘s name a few times as „Ray“ which is at first bit irritating and later on turns out as an (unintended) spoiler.

The chapter about Newton is very strange to listen to because he consistently pronounces Edmond Halley‘s last name as „Hawley“ instead of rhyming it to „valley“. While his choice might be justified as derived from „hall“, the majority of physicists and astronomers pronounce it rhyming to „valley“. Since Dan Schreiber works (and describes himself) as a scientific researcher I am amazed that he apparently didn’t research this.

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