[Sr_developer]

There is a cottage industry of what you may call,if you feel uncharitable, bullshit peddlers:

Simon Sinek

Cal Newport

Charles Duhigg

Mark Manson

Ryan Hollyday

Malcolm Gladwell

The list is endless to be honest, they are each different on their own way but they have the following common points:

- They are on this for the money, so expect them to be always pushing their books, products, next book, next tour, next program.Hustling, hustling,hustling.

- Their grandiose pronouncements with little or not serious backing.

- Their unwarranted sense of speaking from a position of authority

- The over-simplication and stupid generalization of what it is messy, complex and very much unique.

[coder-3]

I don't understand why the desire to make money from one's work is correlated with how bullshit the work is. It's not. Desire to make money is only sometimes associated with with bullshit (but we tend to remember it more because it leaves a bad taste). If that was not the case any capitalistic society would have never worked at all to begin with.

[lotsofpulp]

A good rule of thumb is to assume increasing probabilities of bullshit for subjects further to the left on this scale:

https://xkcd.com/435/

Even biology outside of a cellular level is already above 50% BS for me. It is just insanely difficult to have the necessary controls.

[bgandrew]

On cellular level too! I remember looking at some summarising paper on Duchenne muscular dystrophy for educational purposes. There was a question regarding concentration of certain molecule inside affected muscle cells. 5 papers were quoted - 3 were showing that the concentration is way above normal if DMD is present while other 2 were showing complete opposite. You can not imagine anything like that in math or physics.