Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us - and How to Know When Not to Trust Them by David H. Freedman - Painfully relevant to the current pandemic. Explains why the

Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us - and How to Know When Not to Trust Them by David H. Freedman - Painfully relevant to the current pandemic. Explains why the experts aren't! The End of Average by Todd Rose - Pulls the curtain(s) aside from education, corporations and the non-science of "scientific management". Why Taylorism continues to dominate corporate and social life today. Explains many features of our lives (both civic and corporate) that were "baked into" society decades ago, are rarely examined (indeed rarely noticed) and are ripe for replacement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management The Miraculous Fever Tree by Fiammetta Rocco This reads like (and should be made into) a BBC series: story after story of generations of human suffering from malaria, which remains far more deadly than Covid-19. Where else do you read that merely living in Rome before the existence of a cure for malaria was almost guaranteed to shorten your life significantly and end it badly? Imperial Rome, the center of Roman civilization! Rome, the center of the Catholic Church during and after Rome fell and into the Early Middle Ages! And this disease was endemic not only in Rome but to most of southern Europe extending up to Britain. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/science-malaria-in-britain-1361345.html https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/science-mal...