Bad Advice: How to Survive and Thrive in an Age of Bullshit

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For years, Coach EO has been amassing followers through his YouTube channel, teaching those how to live life more abundantly.

In case anyone doesn't have the time to read the book, they can check out the authors' INFO 198 lecture series at UW iSchool.

I found particularly fascinating the sections about deceptive graphs and stats because that stuff can be tricky. In addition, Coach EO pinpoints the multiple sources and potential remedies for depression and anxiety, among many more imperative subjects. I was also inundated with relatives and friends coming out with crackpot therapies – and even from other patients in chemo wards and waiting rooms. If we believe that salad and jogging will have the desired effect – that we would, if we ate better and ran more, lose weight — then we have a “can happen” attitude.

Stanislaw Burzynski in 1997 at the federal courthouse in Houston, Texas, where he faced 34 charges of mail fraud, which were dismissed, and 41 of violating FDA regulations, upon which the jury failed to reach a verdict. Robertson tells the story of Ally McLeod, who took Scotland to the World Cup in 1978, promising not only to win it but to retain it the next time around. i Whiffing (had to look it up) means missing Pushing beyond linguistic boondoggles helps everyone to see what is solid and what is clothed in ornamental talk. Indeed it would be fascinating to read a follow-up book or article by the authors on Covid science, information and mis-information.

Once they felt that, their behaviour, mental health, education, job and optimism suffered accordingly.

For example, people who gave themselves an eight or higher were twice as likely to be smoke-free after six months than people who gave themselves a four or below.

Participants skipped between buzzwords such as ‘authenticity’, ‘self-actualisation’ and ‘creativity’. Even if it was true, how would you knowing that bit of truth about the fake Melania change your world? Cancer surgeon David Gorski, professor of surgery and oncology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan and managing editor of the online journal Science-Based Medicine, notes that cancer misinformation is “way more prevalent now for the same reason other misinformation and conspiracy theories are so prevalent – because they’re so easily spread on social media. Once human beings turned to soothsayers to make sense of the dreads of life, now they turn to pop psychologists.