Taleb is not a crank, he is an obnoxious snake oil salesman - packages well-known truism as wisdom invented by himself, slates the orthodoxy, collects lots of m

Taleb is not a crank, he is an obnoxious snake oil salesman - packages well-known truism as wisdom invented by himself, slates the orthodoxy, collects lots of money for his hedge fund, then loses it all and earns millions writing books about how all the other hedgies who actually made money are "doing it wrong".