Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Episode: It's Complicated. Writer and podcaster Jesse Singal on Fad Science, Bad Faith and Mad Media
Description: Jesse Singal's new book The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills, challenges many long held assumptions about society and human behavior: for instance the myth of the super predator, the so-called "power pose," the use of positive psychology in the military, even the concept of implicit bias. We've come to take these ideas as truths, but as Jesse explains, many are based on based on faulty methodology, shoddy interpretation and sometimes just wishful thinking. Jesse talks with Meghan about all of that as well as a subject that is not in the book, his research into chi...