A short criticism

[urbpan]

I'm about a quarter the way through Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Does anyone else think that Bryson spends an inordinate amount of time and ink scrutinizing the warts of scientists?

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[ursulav.livejournal.com]

I think he's trying to make it more accessible to the layperson, really...I mean, it's hard to rhapsodize about how saintly somebody was and keep them interested, but if you're going on about how somebody insists on taste-testing all their chemicals...that's interesting!