Why people recommend it
Frontiers of Illusion by Daniel Sarewitz is a critical examination of the relationship between scientific research, technological innovation, and public policy in modern society. On an episode of The Ezra Klein Show titled Has Trump Doomed Progress on Climate Change? released on July 25, 2025, Jane Faggel recommended the book to the listening audience. Faggel described the author as a brilliant thinker regarding science and technology policy, as well as the intersection of science and society. She praised the work for doing a really great job of laying out both the pervasive myths that people tend to believe about science and how it actually operates in practice. The recommendation highlights the book's value for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of how institutional science functions, the assumptions underlying public funding and policy decisions, and the sometimes problematic gap between the public perception of scientific enterprise and the reality of its implementation in the modern world.
Who recommended it
- Jane Faggel Recommended
Jane Faggel — 1 mention
“The second one is Frontiers of Illusion by Daniel Sowitz who is just a brilliant thinker around science and technology policy and science and tech science and society and it just does a really great job sort of laying out both the myth the myths that we believe about science and how it operates and how we need to be”