“It’s clear that we aren’t meant to be on this planet.” writes Ellis Silver PhD in an entertaining work that starts out as promising pop-science but descends into UFO conspiracies. It starts well enough with the author asking lots of good questions, like: why can human beings eat themselves into morbid obesity? Why is the childhood revulsion with vegetables so universal? Why do only humans like spicy food? Why are we so fragile? There are so many mysteries….
However this book is a mystery. For example: why does the author keep debunking himself without noticing? For example: he proves evolution is both real and impossible. He reckons gravity should either be 15% more, or less, he can’t decide which. The author wonders why we keep spraining our ankles, then explains they evolved for climbing trees. He asks why don’t humans have an eye membrane to protect from strong sunlight, then explains that our ancestors lost this because they stayed in the shade. Confusing. What is more it is fundamentally flawed. The author’s thesis is that our fragility proves we didn’t evolve here. Yet this is the same as asking why we have not evolved immortality. Everybody dies.. Humans are uniquely sentient, intelligent and we are obsessed with our own health. Few people die a truly “natural” death any more. We are familiar with the many ways we can die because we pay unique attention to the fact and live such very long lives.
Some of this book’s sources are the clickbait-rich websites of tabloid newspapers and there is evidence of way too much confirmation bias. The author like his evidence to be subjective and anecdotal without strong statistical backing. To borrow from the author’s own criticism of “conventional science” there are “few facts”, “a lot of guesswork”, “a lot of wishful thinking”, “ a lot of forcing the evidence to fit” and “a lot of ignoring the troublesome bits”.
So many really obvious questions remain begging. For example: how did the aliens just “drop off” colonies of pre-humans without them immediately dying of starvation? They would have had to have evolved in an environment to have had the knowledge of how to survive there in the first place. Oh, and please tell me, why GPS prevents interstellar space craft from crashing into the Earth? They travel a hundred light years only to crash into our tiny pin-prick of a planet? Please. Despite its many flaws the book remains good value for money and contains lots of food for thought.
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