Mike Caulfield Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Researcher working on misinfo/information literacy at @UW. New book: Verified, from UChicago Nov 2023. Also at mikecaulfield . bluesky . social

The City & the City
China Miéville
I imagine this is a The City & the City China Miéville situation https://t.co/BAM8NzBNDE
Paperback, 2010
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Connections
James Burke
@danielwinlander You've got to start with something that happened in a cafe in 1942 Serbia, like the James Burke opening Connections.
Paperback, 2007
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Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody
Helen Pluckrose
@DocPhoenix "As Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay noted in their 2020 book Cynical Theories..." uh yeah I'd stay to hear this but I made a strong commitment to organize my sock drawer tonight
Paperback, 2022
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Anthem Rand by Ayn Rand: Novel
Ayn Rand
I lived through seeing my small New Hampshire town overrun by these folks. It's not even cheapness with most of them, it's more they all think they are delivering a monologue in an Ayn Rand novel. Your town becomes a Hollywood set for their little personal film. It sucks. https://t.co/GaChf7R6xe
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Outbreaks: The Sociology of Collective Behavior
Jerry D. Rose
@RVAwonk I haven't seen any specifically -- I was reading Chapter 2 of Jerry D. Rose's introductory book _Outbreaks_ before bed, and was struck by how much the models there had to offer.
Paperback, 1982
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Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
Anna Merlan
This is a great policy that I am going to adopt as well, and could make the world a better place fairly quickly. I can actually start by saying @annamerlan's book Republic of Lies is an incredible example of how to write a pacey, engaging book that doesn't short the academic side https://t.co/WYhggILQqw
Paperback, 2020
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Doctor Who: Scratchman
Tom Baker
Watching the Tom Baker Doctor Who's with my Dad and how much we loved it. When they zoomed into that hand in The Hand of Fear in fall of 1976, one of my earliest memories of anything. https://t.co/VE2qRGJ97Y
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
Michael Lewis
It's really striking how much the Musk takeover of Twitter has resembled the actions of the 2016 post-election transition team of the Trump administration as described in Michael Lewis's The Fifth Risk. Someone should write about that.
Paperback, 2019
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