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03 March 2015

Malcolm Gladwell

Labels: BS

I love the ketchup article as much as the next designer, but Malcolm Gladwell is poison.

Murky thinker.

Oversimplifier.

Blatherer.

Bad historian.

Apologist for smarminess.

Actively disinterested in the truth.

No, really.

Enron apologist.

Big tobacco shill.

Corporate propagandist.

Civil rights revisionist.

And lots more.

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