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A review by socraticgadfly
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang
2.0
Once again, no apology from NDGT.
As others know as well as me or better, for years, Tyson's been called out for a way in which he's NOT Carl Sagan, and that is for not calling out the links between scientists and the military-industrial complex more firmly.
John Horgan, for example, first wrote about it nearly a full decade ago.
And, Tyson, although he occasionally seems to halfway acknowledge the criticism in this book, otherwise does nothing about it.
This is a very good book about the history of those aforementioned links in some ways.
There's little critical thinking in here about the ethics, though.
Of course, given that Tyson has trashed philosophy before, we maybe shouldn't be surprised.
That said, maybe that's WHY he trashes philosophy ... a bit of CYA on ethics.
And with that, because I know the history is good, but there wasn't much new to me, I bumped this down from 3 to 2 stars.
As others know as well as me or better, for years, Tyson's been called out for a way in which he's NOT Carl Sagan, and that is for not calling out the links between scientists and the military-industrial complex more firmly.
John Horgan, for example, first wrote about it nearly a full decade ago.
And, Tyson, although he occasionally seems to halfway acknowledge the criticism in this book, otherwise does nothing about it.
This is a very good book about the history of those aforementioned links in some ways.
There's little critical thinking in here about the ethics, though.
Of course, given that Tyson has trashed philosophy before, we maybe shouldn't be surprised.
That said, maybe that's WHY he trashes philosophy ... a bit of CYA on ethics.
And with that, because I know the history is good, but there wasn't much new to me, I bumped this down from 3 to 2 stars.