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The reviewer praises its wonder and candor about scientific uncertainty but criticizes its length, excessive footnoting, and poor eBook formatting, including unstripped CSS comments and images relegated to the back rather than placed inline with text. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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