If you want to take a deeper dive on a subject, that might mean a book. Here’s a list of suggestions – some we’ve read, some are in our TBR pile, and some have been recommended by others. We are not recommending these as such – please let us know if you found them useful or not, and suggest other books worth reading.
Medical issues, covid and vaccines
Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022 – Edward Dowd, Skyhorse, 2022
A finance guy who looks for patterns in data, Ed Dowd is a former BlackRock analyst whose job is to spot trends. In 2021 he noticed a worrying trend of excess mortality in young people, based on data from the Society of Actuaries.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Cause-Unknown/Ed-Dowd/Children-s-Health-Defense/9781510776395
Turtles All the Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth – Authors not named, edited by Zoey O’Toole & Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense, 2022
Turtles All the Way Down has been published anonymously due to the likelihood of the authors being skewered online if they published openly; the book rests on its facts and only references published data. A list of links to all data is available (URL and QR code given in the front of the book).
Corona False Alarm? Facts and Figures – Dr Karina Reiss & Dr Sucharit Bhakdi, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health – Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Skyhorse Publishing, 2021
The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What To Do Next – Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster & Michael Baker, The Brownstone Institute, 2021
Coleman’s Laws: The 12 Medical Truths You Must Know to Survive – Vernon Coleman, EMJ, 2006
How to Stop Your Doctor Killing You – Vernon Coleman, EMJ, 2003 (first published 1996)
Society, civilisation and suchlike
The Crash Course (Revised Edition): An Honest Approach to Facing the Future of Our Economy, Energy and Environment – Christ Martenson PhD, Wiley, 2023
The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism – Michael Hudson, ISLET, 2022
Prosper! How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting – Chris Martenson PhD & Adam Taggart, 2017 (2nd edition)
Capital in the Twenty-First Century – Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014 (first published as Le capital au XXI siècle, 2013)
Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control – Daniel Pick, Profile Books/Wellcome Collection, 2022
Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for our Future – Raoul Martinez, Canongate, 2017
The Establishment: And how they get away with it – Owen Jones, Penguin Books, 2015
The Blunders of Our Governments – Anthony King & Ivor Crewe, Oneworld Publications, 2013
Scared to Death from BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares Are Costing Us the Earth – Christopher Booker & Richard North, Continuum Books, 2007
There is also a revised version available: Scared to Death from BSE to Coronavirus: Why Scares Are Costing Us the Earth – Christopher Booker & Richard North, Bloomsbury Continuum, 2020
Scanned: Why Vaccine Passports and Digital IDs Will Mean the End of Privacy and Personal Freedom – Nick Corbishley, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2022
Humans & history
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity – David Graeber and David Wengrow, Penguin Books, 2022
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up – Tom Phillips, Wildfire, 2019
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari, Vintage, 2011
Humankind: A Hopeful History – Rutger Bregman, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
Food, nature and climate change
Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy – Matthew Evans, Murdoch Books, 2021
Gaia – James Lovelock, Oxford University Press, 2016 (first published 1979)
Feeding Britain: Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them – Tim Lang, Pelican Books, 2021
Watermelons: How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children’s Future – James Delingpole, Biteback Publishing, 2012
Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World – Eric Schlosser, Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2001
Data & statistics
Doctoring Data: How to sort out medical advice from medical nonsense – Dr Malcolm Kendrick, Columbus Publishing, 2014
Bad Science – Ben Goldacre, Fourth Estate, 2009
Statistics Without Tears: An Introduction for Non-Mathematicians – Derek Rowntree, Penguin Books, 2018 (originally published 1981)
How to Lie with Statistics – Darrell Huff, Penguin Books, 1991 (originally published 1954). Darrell Huff was a journalist – from the book description: In 1954, Darrell Huff decided enough was enough. Fed up with politicians, advertisers and journalists using statistics to sensationalise, inflate, confuse, oversimplify and – on occasion – downright lie, he decided to shed light on their ill-informed and sneaky ways. How to Lie with Statistics is the result – the definitive and hilarious primer in the ways statistics are used to deceive.
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers – Tim Hartford, The Bridge Street Press, 2020