My problem is that you can't teach a kid to read critically if s/he never reads anything of which to be critical. Reading *only* books you agree with leads to a rather narrow (sometimes EXTREMELY narrow!) .
Integrity does not come from always being right. Nor does progress.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself � and you are the easiest person to fool."
Very few books go over the false starts before a theory was formed and finally accepted. Plate Tectonics and the Milankovitch Theory are two recent examples of paradigms that were resisted by the status quo in which a whole lot of "science" had to be thrown out.
I really love this book as it presents the give and take of just such a journey. They leave a lot of the nastiness out of the picture. But, its all too real, even when it comes to the hard sciences. Its a very readable book.
http://www.amazon.com/Ice-Ages-Solv...mp;s=books&qid=1225678676&sr=8-1
