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rickklaw's review
5.0
Science writer and cartoonist Cunningham effectively uses the comics medium to expose controversial ideas and concepts. With comics, photographs, diagrams, and text amazingly free of scientific jargon, Cunningham painstakingly debunks nutcases and challenges skeptics. The moon hoax, homeopathy, chiropractic, the MMR vaccination scandal, evolution, fracking, and climate change fall under the author's cool, critical analysis. While the intelligent and witty Cunningham ruffles feathers from both sides of most of these debates, How to Fake a Moon Landing promises an entertaining and important piece of investigative science journalism.
kelly13's review
3.0
It was an okay starter science book for kids - except for the fracking chapter (see below). In general, the pictures were okay, didn't always add something, and sometimes even were pointless. But requiring a picture for each sentence or sentence fragment is overkill. Why????
The fracking chapter really wasn't science based. It was definitely emotionally based, which is more what the anti-science people lean on. There are lots of pretty animal in the forest scenes, when talking about possible environmental harm. There are lots of big scary chemical names, emphasizing the scary - you really could have just inserted "vaccine ingredients" for "fracking waste ingredients" and make it an antivax meme. *Science* says that the dose makes the poison, and just because something sounds scary and toxic, doesn't necessarily mean that it is. This is emotional manipulation and scare tactics. Science doesn't stand for it, dang it. WE REQUIRE FACTS.
The fracking chapter really wasn't science based. It was definitely emotionally based, which is more what the anti-science people lean on. There are lots of pretty animal in the forest scenes, when talking about possible environmental harm. There are lots of big scary chemical names, emphasizing the scary - you really could have just inserted "vaccine ingredients" for "fracking waste ingredients" and make it an antivax meme. *Science* says that the dose makes the poison, and just because something sounds scary and toxic, doesn't necessarily mean that it is. This is emotional manipulation and scare tactics. Science doesn't stand for it, dang it. WE REQUIRE FACTS.
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