Summary
Carl Bergstrom, Jevin West: It's bullshit!
The world is flooded with bullshit. Disinformation and fake news are everywhere around us and it is increasingly difficult to distinguish what is truth and what is manipulation. Some of it is harmless, some of it is funny, but a lot of the bullshit that goes around can have serious consequences for human health, the integrity of science and the democratic decision-making process (just think of Andrew Wakefield and Donald Trump).
American scientists Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West in their bestseller That's bullshit! teach us effective ways to spot data abuse and how to live in a world with less nonsense. Regardless of whether bullshit is created intentionally or is the result of indifference to the truth, it takes significantly more energy to refute it than to create it. Bergstrom and West provide us with excellent tools to succeed in this. And they do it in a really fun way.
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