[quote=greekfire]
Some of these topics are enough to give most people headaches. Maybe that’s part of the strategy. Let the experts take care of things and just hang on for the ride. Griffin’s book is more for the layperson to understand these topics – through the author’s perspective. Like all things, read it with a jaundiced eye.[/quote]
To wit, I present you with the Expert/Layperson Literary Theorem:
The degree to which any author attempts to simplify an inherently complicated subject for the benefit of the layperson is directly correlated to the degree to which said author can monkey around with the facts and body of knowledge underlying said subject.
Importantly, this is NOT to suggest that “more complicated” is better. Rather it’s merely to suggest that simplification CAN engender shenanigans if the author is so inclined (regardless of which side of an argument the author may be on).
