Reason: Books I & II

A Critical Thinking-, Reason-, and Science-Based Approach to Issues That Matter

By: Bo Bennett PhD

Narrated by: Bo Bennett PhD

Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

This book is based on the first five years of The Dr. Bo Show, where Bo takes a critical thinking-, reason-, and science-based approach to issues that matter with the goal of educating and entertaining.

Every chapter in the book explores a different aspect of reason by using a real-world issue or example.

Part one is about how science works even when the public thinks it doesn't. Part two will certainly ruffle some feathers by offering a reason- and science-based perspective on issues where political correctness has gone awry. Part three provides some data-driven advice for your health and well-being. Part four looks at human behavior and how we can better navigate our social worlds. In part five we put on our skeptical goggles and critically examine a few commonly-held beliefs. In the final section, we look at a few ways how we all can make the world a better place.

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A Good Attempt at Propaganda

I am very disappointed. I went on a buying spree and purchased many of this author's books. for several years I have highly recommended far and wide his book of 300 logical fallacies. it is a great book!

The author used the sheep's clothing of "reason" to discuss many things about which most rational people would arrive at similar conclusions. He also included numerous personal subjective values, that are not objective or logic / reason based. This is acceptable when one wants to spread one's ideas and worldviews. Adhering to logic and reason is not something I always do when I am trying to persuade some people of some things.

about 60% of the book was very good, and very much helped me address some of my biases and has made me do some real thinking and will be the topic of some of my future content production. The weather 40% though, was disappointing. The author clearly has a biased worldview that is similar to the worldview that many people described as being leftist or collectivist. I find leftists and brightests to be almost as disgusting as spineless moderates.

A portion that I especially liked was a later chapter comparing domestic abuse to the abuse religious people receive at the hand of their religion. As a Voluntaryist and atheist, it was interesting for me to hear his masterful parallel and to add yet another parallel line, statism.

I'm not able to defend my worldview as being the one and only and true and best worldview, and unlike the author, I don't suggest that everything that I think or believe comes from a perfect place of reason. I mess up a bunch, as does the author. To restate in plain language one paragraph that was especially off-putting, "I believe certain things, however I believe them because I arrive at them through logic and reason unlike the people who disagree with me about things." lol

Anyway, My Hope Is that this book was simply an attempt to spread collectivist ideology, and as a person who subjectively values humanitarian issues like privacy, personal freedoms and free association quite highly, I have to shake my head with disappointment. Much like an NPR news story, that attempts to make the people who are listening think that they are very sophisticated and intelligent while propagandizing the same ideology that MSNBC does,

I think that the author has good intentions, and he has done a lot of good through his book Logically Fallacious. It is one of my top 10 most recommended books, alongside greats such as the Bernays reader, confessions of an economic Hitman, the most dangerous superstition,..