"X is a ... method that gives people a delusion that they are doing something useful with their data." could be applied to pretty much any method in ML if you d

"X is a ... method that gives people a delusion that they are doing something useful with their data." could be applied to pretty much any method in ML if you don't know what you're doing. PCA is a strange omission, but it's not like it's hard to find references on it. ITILA is a great book and it's legally free online, by the way.