Even after Sam-I-Am persuades me to try them?
On the other hand, can we learn something from this book about selling science? Evolution? Are our anti-Creationist tactics, for instance, better or worse than Sam's? Or is his strategy inappropriate for this topic?
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Brilliant analysis!!!
(the only thing he missed is that ol' Ted was an ad man, probably not true that he wrote in those themes "without realizing it")
I understand that a salesman might not see this, but SamIam always seemed a bit of a creepy stalker type to me.