The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense by Michael
Shermer

I was kind of nonplussed by this book. He sets off to try and define the
difference between solid science, pseudoscience, and the gray area in
between. And near as I can tell, he doesn’t really come to any firm
conclusion.

Sure, he can rule out some pseudoscience fairly easily (Creationism is not
falsifiable, and therefore decidedly not science), but in the borderlands
(like SETI) he just says “Gray area, whatareyagonnado?”.

Plus, there was a lot of rehashing (or perhaps prehashing… I’m not sure
of the order) of the other books I’ve read by him.