What’s frustrating about this situation is how obviously wrong the experiments were as described in the book, and yet how unshakably the findings were defended by Kahneman and others. I read the book before the crisis and stopped reading after the priming chapter, it was clearly fantasy, especially the experiment about reading words related to old age and then walking more slowly down a hallway. Now that the crisis is public knowledge it’s hard to believe these findings were ever accepted by the mainstream, but they were.

You just have to think for yourself and weigh the evidence, be humble and open to other perspectives. Mindlessly following perceived experts won’t save you.