“Welcome to Nonscience, where scatter-brained Experts lay down the law, and the politicians are too uneducated and inexperienced to tell truth from fiction.” Brian Ford, The European
In 1971, Brian Ford’s Nonscience caused a sensation and was publicly acclaimed – featuring on BBC’s Tomorrow’s World and receiving reviews from a range of outlets including the Evening News, Irish Press, and the Times Higher Educational Supplement. This satirical commentary on the domination of ‘Experts’ was translated into multiple languages and released across the world.
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Curtis Press published Nonscience Returns – a revision of its predecessor that reveals a world dominated by Experts. For these all-powerful people, public image and media exposure are all that matters. Scientists, eager to discover the truth, have been superseded by Experts who use confusing language to dominate us and lay claim to colossal grants. Integrity and objectivity are gone; opportunism and duplicity reign.
Expanded for a contemporary audience, Nonscience Returns deals with the repercussions of Ford’s assertions in the modern era, reflecting on how some of these have become a reality.
In a time of political upheaval, the contemporary reader can expect to resonate with the book in more ways than one. Nonscience Returns is an exposé – using humour and ridicule to reveal the very nature of the world in which we live and the ‘Experts’ that dominate public thought.
“Nonscience Returns, indeed, and it seems not a moment too soon.” – Timothy Arden, The London Economic
