This blog is for discussion of the ideas raised in my books "Big Fat Liars" and "The Tyranny of Experts." If it -- and the books -- succeed, you won't accept the things you are told until you have passed them through the filter of your own common sense. Not even the things I tell you!
How Politicians,
Corporations, and the Media use Science and Statistics To Manipulate
the Public
A sharp expose of the overwhelming statistical lies--lies about
everything from terrorism to the environment to obesity and
tobacco--that manipulate Americans for the sinister motives of
government, the media, corporations, and meretricious lawyers.
The
Tyranny of Experts: Blowing the Whistle on
the Cult of Expertise
More than ever, we rely on "experts" to tell us how to
live - from the food we eat to raising our children to making love. In
The Tyranny of Experts, Dr. Morris E. Chafetz argues that many of these
authorities - scientists, public interest advocates, researchers,
lawyers, physicians, psychologists, social workers, and others - seek
to influence America's political, social, and moral climate far beyond
the bounds of their specialized knowledge.
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