This book is excellent, and quite readable if you can think logically. As best as I can tell, most of the one-star reviews come from Landsburg's skewering of the environmental movement. He talks about it as a religion, and the emotional reaction of those reviewers shows he's pretty much on target.Bottom line - if you can suppress your emotional attachment to certain popular ideas and consider them objectively, you'll like this book. If you can't, you'll hate it.