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Could not have said this better myself.

I've struggled to articulate my dislike of Gladwell, but you've done it accurately here.

Upvoted. Its easy to forget, he is a journalist, albeit a very glorified one - not a scientist, although it's easy to see how he is often confused as one.

Journalists have as much responsibility to the truth as scientists. It is possible to entertain people using only the truth.

Sure, but they're limited by not being experts in the subject matter they are reporting while at the same time attempting to distill it down into accessible language for the lay reader.

Just because someone is proclaimed "expert" doesn't mean they are good at what they do. This is especially true for the softer fields that Gladwell writes in.

At the end of the day it's up to you to determine if what you are reading is accurate. And if you don't have the tools, resources, or time to do so, you trust in experts at your own risk.

Gladwell is not even a journalist:

http://www.alternet.org/story/155770/is_malcolm_gladwell_ame...

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