"I don't want to institutionalize the company … I don't mind keeping very accurate and very credible books and records … I want investors to believe in the company; I'm not trying to fool around with that.
While I have a feeling that her comments at the Edinburgh international book festival have been blown a little out of proportion – she's not advocating a return to "the sort of fiction that is no longer credible – books with a Blyton-ish view of things" – some of the best modern children's books I've read recently have been the most realistic, dealing with tough issues, from knife crime to death.
Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of the first credible books to explore the safety then efficacy of cannabis, said this, "I think the day will come when it or some cannabinoid derivatives will be demonstrated to have cancer curative powers, but in the meantime, we must be very cautious about what we promise these patients".
The political direction of the country may be up for grabs until November, but the right has scored an interim victory — if that's the word — in a weeklong contest to determine "the least credible history book in print" just concluded by the History News Network.
So, in honor of the first anniversary of the publication of the "Least Credible History Book in Print," I've decided to make the first volume of my debunking of that masterpiece of historical revisionism (which debunks every stinking lie the book's second chapter) available as a FREE PDF.
Readers then be asked to vote for "the least credible history book in print".
Reza, the Americans' Iranian mole (really a Revolutionary Guard stationed in Istanbul), is especially well drawn and the reasons why he betrays his homeland seem entirely credible.The book's female villain is both terrifying and convincing.
Updated, 4 18 p.m. | The historian Howard Zinn won a dubious prize of sorts last year when his best-selling "People's History of the United States" came in second in an informal online poll to determine the "least credible history book in print".
Not only does he want to produce a credible comic book that fans of the genre will embrace, he also wants to create something that will "make a little dent" in the ongoing exclusion of disabled people.
