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Bomber mafia: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-pop-history-bombs-a-response-to-malcolm-gladwells-love-letter-to-american-air-power/ https://lareviewofbo
by mturmon 4y ago
Bomber mafia: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-pop-history-bombs-a-response-to-malcolm-gladwells-love-letter-to-american-air-power/ https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-pop-history-bombs-a...
Roundup of a few (follow links): https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/02/29/the-paterno-defence-gladwells-tipping-point/ https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/02/29/the-patern...
If Books Could Kill (worthwhile, as is the Freakonomics episode of the same podcast): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/malcolm-gladwells-outliers/id1651876897?i=1000585745201 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/malcolm-gladwells-outl...
- tptacek 4y agoFor what it's worth, I do not love If Books Could Kill (I've only listened to the first three, though).
- mturmon 4y agoAlas, I've had to sit through "contrarian" nerds regurgitating various freakish takes that typically drift towards the same ideological valence. Because of this, I quite enjoyed an hour of rather well-informed dunking on Freakonomics. To an extent, it's salutary: the whole TED-adjacent ecosystem favors storytellers over actual expertise, and it's helpful for me [an author of grant proposals] to review cases where compelling storytelling went too far.