Reddit mentions of The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

If you read Jon Ronson’s excellent book Them: Adventures With Extremists, in which he hangs out with various extremists of all kinds, written when AJ was still just a kook on the radio, you will see he is very much the same way he’s always been. He even snuck into Bohemian Gove like a damn commando, hiding in the bushes and paranoid as fuck, while Ronson just walked right in and joined in the festivities. That chapter is hilarious.

ETA the link.

EATA: I also recommend Will Storr’s The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science which is less America-focused, more British and European, but he hangs out with Creationists, people at a Morgellons convention (I never hear about that anymore), people who believe the 7/7 attacks in London are a hoax, and, of curse, Holocaust Deniers. He even goes undercover on a multi-day group tour to several concentration camps hosted by David Irving himself. Irving being the colossal shithead Holocaust Denier who lost his libel case against Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt, which he brought against her and her publisher for calling him a Holocaust Denier.

Both writers have their own voices and approaches, and subjects, but I loved the explorations of extreme beliefs and the people who hold them. I wish Storr wrote more books; Ronson’s more prolific; they both write for other media too. Im probably going to go reread everything now.