Fun fact about Gladwell, he cut his ‘journalistic’ teeth writing press releases for Big Tobacco, questioning the science behind the determination that it causes cancer and slandering the people suing tobacco companies.

They don’t hire insightful thinkers with a burning urge to speak truth to power for those positions.

Twice, just in case the first time isn’t conclusive enough.

the theory’s basic premise is that human beings generally operate under the assumption that the people we are interacting with are being honest.

Add to that McQueary was legitimately afraid of not only losing his job but also his entire career. If he was blackballed by Penn State, may as well go get that teaching certificate. Telling Paterno was a huge risk on his part. Completely agree that Gladwell is the lowest form of life for rehashing a settled matter,…

He wonders why McQueary remembers the campus as being deserted on the night he says he witnessed the assault (Feb. 9, 2001), even though there was a hockey game and a Barenaked Ladies concert on campus that night.

Good comment.

To be fair, I think we should withhold judgement and run that experiment just to be sure.

There’s a very simple reason why McQueary didn’t go to the cops right away: sometimes when we see things that go against our pre-existing beliefs, our brains work their asses off to come up with reasoning. McQueary respected Sandusky as a football coach and seeing him rape a child was outside of what he expected. So…

Malcolm Gladwell: “All I’m saying is that jet fuel can’t melt Sandusky’s penis.”

As long as they take out State College and the Paterno stans, it’s worth it.

It’s a damn shame the name of this trick play is not “Holy Pitt!”

“We’re in a culture where we want to cast judgement on people, we want to disparage people so quickly.”

“Innocent before proven guilty” is a legal phrase (kind of) that has nothing to do with the Patriots signing and cutting Antonio Brown.

Mediocre...someone was feeling generous today.

You think Ben Carson is mediocre?

This right here. If you ever though Tom Brady wasnt an asshole and a prick, this is all the evidence you need that he is. Hes literally complaining because everyone has a voice now

Tom: “Sure, he did some terrible things before he joined the team, but that’s all TB12 under the bridge”

It’s a damn shame that society has come to the point where we’re expected to listen to women when they accuse men of sexual assault. And even when the men are really good at football!

The Paterno/McQueary conversation as it plays out in the fevered imaginations of Gladwell, Jenkins, et al:

He’ll be president soon.