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I don't think that's quite right. Fox News encourages people not to think at all. Gladwell encourages people to think (the adjective thought-provoking is frequ

I don't think that's quite right. Fox News encourages people not to think at all. Gladwell encourages people to think (the adjective thought-provoking is frequently applied to his work), even if his actual content isn't 100% true. Also, I don't think Gladwell ever completely lies. He certainly bends the truth, but he doesn't make up things on a whim like Fox.

lutusp 13y ago
> Also, I don't think Gladwell ever completely lies. True, but we need to ask what we mean by "lie". Blatant lying is easy to detect and uncover. Cherry-picking facts to make a point contradicted by reality, by science, is a sneakier kind of lying, a kind meant to appeal to the superficially educated, the sort of people for whom the title of the article asks a reasonable question -- should we "believe him"? Educated people don't need to believe anyone -- they will instead accept a responsibility to gather facts, evidence, for themselves.