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Originally Posted by darryl
As pwalker8 pointed out, Silent Spring turned out to be wanting scientific and classifies it as a work of advocacy, of which there are many around these days.
As I indicated previously, whilst I am sure there is a rare exception, most non-fiction books are published well after whatever truth involved has come out and been dealt with. And so far I can't think of an example of even one of these rare books.
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It all depends on what field of study we are talking about. In many fields of study, it's not truth but rather our understanding of what is true, i.e. theories. Many of the more popular science titles tend to discuss the current theories. Titles such as Sagan's Cosmo were tremendously popular at the time, but our understanding of the subject has changed quite a bit since that book came out.