The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit

For anyone who is familiar with Cecil and Tom’s body of work: this book won’t come as a shock. Turns out, people are generally convinced of their own bs and will jump through many a hoop searching for that tasty, tasty confirmation bias. This book offers a great breakdown of some of the bs folks hav......more

love the book and love the podcast I have been listening to the Cognitive Dissonance podcast for years and I absolutely recommend it as a companion piece if people want to get to know the authors behind this book. They are hilarious and they absolutely live the advice of their book. I started listeni......more

Excellent Accessible and on point. This book lays out the harm caused by credulous thinking and religion in an accessible manner. Well written and well reasoned.......more

I'm a big fan of Tom and Cecil's podcasts, and this book did not disappoint. It was an entertaining, well-researched and sourced look at irrational belief, why we believe it, and why it's damaging. It was informative and entertaining, however deceptively long. Overall I enjoyed it, but there was bot......more

The book is a very well done discussion of critical thinking and the lack thereof. It goes through common non-critical viewpoints and analyzes what went wrong to cause the uncritical view. They discuss topics from reiki healing, Chem trails, pizzagate and the claim of election fraud. Finally it goes......more