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David Freedman... My latest book came out in June, 2010. It's called WRONG: Why experts keep failing us--and how to know when not to trust them. It's about all the forces that push experts, be they top scientists, high-powered consultants, pop gurus, financial whizzes or journalistic pundits (like me), into misleading us with flawed advice, and discusses ways to tell good expert advice from the dubious stuff. It's published by Little, Brown. You can find it on Amazon here.............*DAVID FREEDMAN: WRONG....Really drives home the dubiousness of much--if not most--of what passes for expert wisdom....If WRONG is right, the magnitude of the problem is much greater than most people suspect....we’re awash in untrustworthy advice....so common are the serious errors catalogued in Wrong by even the most eminent researchers and institutions, though, and so influential are false claims in directing the flow of dollars and in propping up whole industries and reputations....On the surface, Wrong is about the untrustworthiness of expert advice, but it has much deeper implications.
--Stanford University's David H. Voelker, in Skeptic
