About the Book

“We are in the middle of a pandemic of credulous thinking. 9/11 conspiracy theories, cults, homeopathy, vitamin cures for AIDS, creationism, Afrocentric history – all these come under the heading of ‘counterknowledge’.”

Counterknowledge.com is the companion website to Damian Thompson’s book Counterknowledge: How We Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History. (Readers from the U.S., please click here.)

 ‘Powerful, compelling, and necessary – in this book Damian Thompson takes a blowtorch to sloppy thinking and stands up for enlightenment values with dash, authority and aplomb.’ Michael Gove

‘A wonderfully clear-sighted and intellectually exciting polemic … Brilliantly exact and often very witty. A splendid, short sharp shock of a book.’ Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

‘Intelligent, angry and funny.’ Sunday Times

‘Counterknowledge is more than just a thoroughly enjoyable demolition job of every type of modern quackery. Damian Thompson shows how apparently harmless pseudo-science breeds nationalism, race hatred and disease.’ Nick Cohen

‘The few hours it will take you to read this passionate, angry, wise and witty book will be well spent. You will have a lot of fun and at the same time be armed to the teeth against the many modes of quackery that are abroad today and the ethos that has permitted them to flourish.’ Raymond Tallis

‘This excellent book should be put in the satchel of every secondary school child, in the pigeonhole of every undergraduate, and in the hands of every officer of every quango called Ofsomething.’ A C Grayling, New Humanist