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So this book starts with some big words, some smart one-liners. The author talks about chaos theory, causality, inferences, epistemology, how we come to conclusions, he mentions some big names like Einstein, Boher, Isaac Newton and for those of you who love scientific words, he has sprinkled those at start as well. He has also gotten few big names to write forward for him and last but not least the author himself has PhD and he was a MD. I also love how he mentioned that it took him decades to write this book, using the rhetoric of time to trick the reader. I had to stop reading after few pages because I couldn't take the hocus pocus the author was getting into. This review could turn into a book of its own if I were to discuss all the tricks/strategies the author has used to trick people into believing him but I will mention few: 1. He associates his ideas to chaos theory and scientific discovery to give it a tone of authority. This is a trick a lot of people use to make others believe their ideas/research is real. 2. He has 10000000s of reasons why results may not show up like his but the results that did show up what he was expecting he doesn't mention anything about those. For instance, if your number doesn't match what he was expecting then you are lying or you are married or you are wearing a ring or that you are controlling your emotions. But what about the people that got the exact number he was expecting weren't some of those married? Weren't some of them lying? Weren't some of them wearing rings or perfume? Yes he mentions having a perfume can distort the result as well but apparently when results are what he was expecting it's not a big deal. 3. There's a lot of scientific jargon which I believe fools a lot of people thinking that what the author is saying is probably real. 4. There are also some fancy quotes like one I read was: "Truth cannot be disproved by falsehood anymore than light can be by darkness." Ya right but you (the author) can prove why others are not truthful by mentioning 100000 reasons why they didn't get the results you were expecting but no reasons why you got results from same people that met all those 100000 reasons which caused results to be negative for others? I could also say that truth cannot be disproved by giving reasons to confirm your bias. This book is loaded with confirmation bias, and sneaky tactics to make you believe in this bs. The only good thing about this book is that I like the "Title" and also strategies/tactics the author uses to trick people into believing his bs ideas. Anyone who thinks this book is worth reading should really spend some time pondering over how they make decisions and how they process information. While I won't get into the epistemology of knowledge or how to use rhetorics to trick and fool people what I do suggest is that people read these two books: How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich Psychology of Intelligence Analysis Paperback by Richards J. Heuer If you are reading my review after reading few pages of this book then throw it away and get those two books I have suggested it will change your life and how you make decisions. Don't let sunk cost fallacy get to you. There are far better books. As a great philosopher once said, a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows. These type of books make a lot of noise but that's it, it's NOISE.