Description: From the internationally bestselling authors of A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders (Jonn Elledge) and Truth and Humans (Tom Phillips), an insightful, illuminating, often hilarious, and extremely timely journey through conspiracy theories, how they spread, and how not to fall for them
Brief description: Tom Phillips is an author and journalist from London. He is currently the editor of Full Fact, the UK's independent fact checking organization. Before that, he was editorial director at BuzzFeed UK. His book Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up (a history of failure through the ages), was published in 2018 and has sold in 30 territories worldwide.
Review Quotes: In dark times, it's reassuring to learn that we've always been a bunch of clueless f*cking nitwits.--Stuart Heritage, writer at The Guardian