Are Scientists Hiding Something? Myths of the 21st Century

Official historians are deceiving us: in the ancient times there were much more powerful civilizations than we are. It was proved that the Egyptians could not build pyramids, the ancient Britons did not build Stonehenge by themselves, and that man is a product of genetic engineering by aliens. People have lived on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. The main engine of the evolution of our ancestors was radiation. You should not drink milk and eat cereals, because the people of the Stone Age lived exclusively on raw meat. Should we believe these statements? Why in such an era, when genetics, nuclear physics and medicine have achieved unprecedented success, does pseudoscience flourish and scientists have to fight dilettantes? How should we fight obscurantism, protect ourselves from pseudoscientific rubbish and avoid the traps of “alternative facts”? These and other questions are answered in an ironic and fascinating way by Alexander Sokolov, the editor-in-chief of the portal antropogenez.ru.

Moscow: Alpina non-fiction, 2017