Title: Important ideas badly presented (but see these better books)
Product review: Let's ignore the author's obvious eagerness to show us how much smarter than everyone else around him he is, and how "cool" he is by being unconventional. The core ideas he attempts to present ARE important, but he does them a disservice by his scattershot explanations and disjointed examples. This wouldn't be so bad if he was presenting new ideas or theories, but he is mostly simply rehashing rather old thoughts.To be more positive, here are some books that cover many of the same topics but in much clearer and more entertaining ways: "Inevitable Illusions : How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds" by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, "How to Lie with Statistics" by D. Huff, and most anything by John Allen Paulos.
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