“Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has brilliantly exposed the exaggerated claims and deceptions that have persisted in standard textbook discussions of biological origins for many decades, in spite of contrary evidence. these claims have been so often repeated that they seem unassailable - that is, until one reads Wells's book.” WellsHas BeensBookDoneSeemsCommunityEvolutionStandardsEvidenceClaimsDecadesContraryDeceptionDiscussionSpiteExposedIconsEducatorTextbooksExaggeratedGreat Service Author:Dean H. Kenyon
“The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.” Has BeensKnownCrossesAccountsAgentsFormerDeceptionOperationsOfficialsBroadsCommitteesSecrecyChairmanDefianceOutlines Author:Ben Macintyre
“What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.” WayMayHas BeensDoneStrugglePaintingAmountDeceptionLabourSweat Author:Michelangelo
“Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.” WellsHas BeensTrainingShadowDeceptionGet BackAcademicDeceived Author:Pablo Picasso
“All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been.” MayHas BeensBrilliantDeceptionIllustration Author:Wendy Beckett
“First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.” IfsThinkingFirstsDoeHas BeensSelfFactsRealityMightTruthFacesDiesWishDealsCitiesRefuseDeceptionMight Have BeenSlogansSelf Deception Author:John F. Kennedy