Nonscience

Nonscience is a 1971 book which claims to have the longest and most complex title in publishing history.

For other uses, see Non-science.

Its full title is Nonscience and the Pseudotransmogrificationalific Egocentrified Reorientational Proclivities Inherently Intracorporated In Expertistical Cerebrointellectualised Redeploymentation with Special Reference to Quasi-Notional Fashionistic Normativity, The Indoctrinationalistic Methodological Modalities and Scalar Socio-Economic Promulgationary Improvementalisationalism Predelineated Positotaxically Toward Individualistified Mass-Acceptance Gratificationalistic Securipermanentalisationary Professionism, or How To Rule The World, London: Wolfe Publishing (ISBN 0-7234-0449-6). The book was updated and reissued in 2020 as Nonscience Returns by the Curtis Press.[1][2]

Its author Brian J. Ford pokes fun at those who conceal their lack of real expertise by using long and complicated words, whilst making the serious point that many people are fooled by these so-called experts. Some consider the book prescient, thinking that modern society, where decisions are taken by unseen experts, is much as Ford predicted.

Spanish edition

In the Spanish edition the title was rendered as Como se falsifica la Ciencia; la Nonciencia y las proclividades Reorientacionales egocentrificadas pseudotransmigrificacionalificas inheremente intracorporadas a la Redesplegamentacion Expertistica Cerebrointelecualizada, con especial referencia a la Normatividad Modaistica Cuasi-nocional, las Modilidades Metodologicas adoctrinamientisticas y el Perfeccionamientalismo Escelar Socioeconomico Promulgacionario predelineado Postitotaxativaments Hacia el Profesionalismo Seguripermanentalinicario Gratificionalistico Individualistificado el la Aceptacion de las Masas, o Como Regir el Mundo [translation by Oscar Muslera], Libertad y Cambio, Buenos Aires: Granica Editor.

Reviews

In Britain, the book was reviewed in the following publications:

The book was also featured on the BBC television show Tomorrow's World.

See also

References
  1. Ford, Brian J. (October 2020). Nonscience Returns: WITH THE PSEUDOTRANSMOGRIFICATIONALIFIC EGOCENTRIFIED REORIENTATIONAL PROCLIVITIES INHERENTLY INTRACORPORATED IN EXPERTISTICAL ... PROFESSIONALISM, OR HOW TO RULE THE WORLD. ISBN 978-0993400254.
  2. Ayago, Keith (October 1, 2020). "Nonscience Returns". The London Economic.


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