It is hard to take seriously a book that is so unashamedly biased against its subject. Mr. Knight's approach is that Mr. Chomsky's ideas are so wrong that his work is almost valueless. I am not qualified to judge Mr. Chomsky's work on its merits however, I am qualified to say that the western scientific practice values well-argued theories even if they are technically wrong. Thus we value Aristotle, Agrippa, Ptolmy, Hippocrates, and even Sigmund Freud to the body of science, even though we do not refer to their findings very often.

I received a review copy of "Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics"
by Chris Knight (Yale University Press) through NetGalley.com.