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There's some interesting books coming out of this series in which the authors defend some of the minority views on different issues.

The problem I'm having with the series is that even on issues I agree with, some of their arguments are really weak or (in my opinion) deceptive. Thus, I lose faith in the parts that I'm not as familiar with.

For instance, The Politically Incorrect Guide to global warming is interesting and as a skeptic of human produced CO2 caused global warming I'm sympathetic to the author's arguments. But I know that many of the arguments in the book are pretty iffy.

It gets much worse in another book in the series regarding Intelligent Design.  Look, Intelligent Design is not a theory. It's a hypothesis that simply says "This is all too complicated to have happened on its own therefore a magical super being must have done it." It's nonsense and most of the arguments it makes simply factually incorrect.

It's because of that that I am not likely to purchase the other books in the series, especially one issues that I agree with the premises of the book. I don't want to find myself regurgitating poorly researched data to other people.

I like to think that my opinions on issues are based on a rational exploration of the issue by learning as much on it as I can and then forming said opinion.  But if I can't trust the source on details I'm already knowledgeable on, I don't want to trust to the source on data I'm not familiar on.