The author anecdotaly notices a great many work place fallacies such as "confirmation bias", "the bandwagon effect" etc. Then, seemingly unaware of these separa

The author anecdotaly notices a great many work place fallacies such as "confirmation bias", "the bandwagon effect" etc. Then, seemingly unaware of these separate categories, lumps them together and ascribes that lump as an innate characteristic of "smart" people. Obviously an organization that succumbs to these fallacies is going to have trouble. Obviously adding "unsmart" people to the mix will only exacerbate it. But that's not really surprising. What's interesting is a trend, of which this article is an example, to ascribe the problems of the alleged meritocracy (which are real) not to the system itself but instead to clear reasoned well informed thinking. It's possible that this strange dislike of reason is triggered by pseudo-intellectuals on the far right cloaking themselves in the language of rationality to argue against global warming, minimum wages, the cigaret-cancer link etc. But I'd like to see more conjecture/evidence about what's causing it.