This is bullshit.

Disinformation and fake news are multiplying, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell what's true. The media landscape is subservient to the interests of political parties, specific businesses, or the geopolitical ambitions of entire states. Science is practised through press releases. Startup culture elevates bullshit to a high art. We are relatively well-equipped to recognise old-style bullshit based on impressive rhetoric and kind words, but most of us don't feel qualified to challenge contemporary bullshit presented in the language of mathematics, science, or statistics. In the book Calling Bullshit, the authors provide us with a set of effective tools to help us penetrate even the most seemingly impenetrable data. Drawing from a deep well of expertise in statistics and computational biology, they skilfully uncover examples of selection bias and misleading data visualisation. We have always needed people who will, when necessary, say out loud, “This is bullshit,” whether in a circle of friends, in the scientific community, or among the citizens of a nation. Now that bullshit has become so widespread, we must relearn the art of scepticism.