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Do not read The Poverty of Science by topics.
Losses might be irrecoverable.
(How to read the book correctly so that not to miss fundamental contents).
If you are to read The Poverty of Science, you should avoid reacting like those who just take a keek at books, reading topics here and there, randomly and with no scientific criteria. This attitude causes huge losses, which are sometimes irreparable. Fragmented reading fatally makes impossible to understand the whole, which is never the sum of the parts, but a new content, by far more important and complex than one piece of the work.
You should also keep away from doing like those who were already involved and influenced by their own convictions - most of them mistaken -, and just abandon the text in discredit as soon as they come across the first opinion to which he does not agree and considers false. Acting like that, one risks losing important contents of the book. Renounce to your convictions temporarily and devote yourself to it. Let this fresh air in, so that it can make your reading productive.
All the opinions presented in The Poverty of Science, including those with which you don’t agree, have scientific basis and are evidenced by strong arguments throughout the work, much probably somewhere else in the text. If you limit yourself to reading the book’s topics you may lose scientific questioning and miss the meaning of the work.
