The author has set his definition of “success” so high that he’s guaranteed to fail.
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Gladwell tells a good story, and has great skill at writing entire books out of one or two studies that he doesn’t really understand or partially fabricates. His books really are a stunning display of pandering to a desire for easy answers and granting secret knowledge on how thing “really” work.
While “Monsanto sues farmers for seeds blowing onto their fields” is a typical anti-GMO talking point, it has very little basis in reality.
By the way you parse Wikipedia's definition, evolution, nuclear theory and the theory of gravity could be "religions" as well. From Wikipedia's definition, I would say that atheism is not a religion because there is no organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems or world views; there's no commonality among…
Mansions is much more playable than Arkham Horror. Arkham Horror is clunky for the sake of being clunky.
Totally agree with this assessment. Gloom is great because it's easy to understand. Arkham Horror is great if everyone has played it a few times before. Personally, I'm not a big fan; there just seemed to be systems layered on top of systems for no reason other than to say, "this is a serious boardgame".
How exactly does it reaffirm that? "It burns weird, so that's obviously dark spirits leaving it."
Given all of the problems with the article, wouldn't it be better just to take it down entirely, and have a deep think about being less credulous? Why send these snake oil salesmen the traffic at all?
This is was a seriously embarrassing read, and something I would have expected from Gizmodo rather than io9. A misleading headline (it hasn't been "approved") and a suggestion that it works based on a study that hasn't been peer-reviewed, are all signs of the worst kind of reporting.
Stories like this seriously damage…