I stopped drinking 30 years before this article was published. A 12 step program played a big part in it. Since then I have been an amateur student of the fiel

I stopped drinking 30 years before this article was published. A 12 step program played a big part in it. Since then I have been an amateur student of the field, and I feel these gentlemen are more wrong than right. AA is an easy target because when you read the text there is a lot of BS in it---But the organization created by it does work better than anything before it, and most things since. I am not sure if the record is 5% or 30% or whatever, but it is surely more than zero. One of the best defenses AAs methods I have seen is the opinion of Charlie Munger, who talks about how AA uses several common human tendencies that are hardwired into most of us all at the same time in a synergistic way.