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October 9, 2013
Brainsteam Bullshit
I had thought Gladwell was inadvertently misunderstanding the science he was writing about and making sincere mistakes in the service of coming up with ever more "Gladwellian" insights to serve his audience.
But according to his own account, he knows exactly what he is doing, and not only that, he thinks it is the right thing to do. Is there no sense of ethics that requires more fidelity to truth, especially when your audience is so vast—and, by your own suggestion, so benighted—as to require oversimplification and to be unmoved by consistency and coherence? Malcolm Gladwell critique: David and Goliath misrepresents the science.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 9, 2013 10:31 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.