On: ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me’ and America’s Post-Truth Era

[tpurves]

You have to be careful with Gladwell. His primary gift, is that is he is an incredible storyteller. Take him as entertainment not as a historian or scientist. He goes for surprising and unexpected simple reasons for everything, often by cherry-picking individual facts or annecdotes.

[paulcole → tpurves]

The problem with Gladwell is that he shoots an arrow and then draws a bullseye around where it landed.

[cujo → tpurves]

Do you have any particular instances of him getting it wrong. I often here this concern, but I'm yet to find someone that can point to a moment and say he got it wrong.

[chuckgreenman → cujo]

This article from the Columbia Journalism review is level headed but tough, and brings in a few specific examples: https://archives.cjr.org/the_observatory/the_gladwellian_deb...