The Truth About Lies by Aja Raden’s Review – History of Deception, Hoaxes, and Disadvantages | Social Books

NSAbout 18 months after birth, babies begin to become sneaky. They hide the food they don’t like and make fake crying. In other words, they learned that reality is something that can be carried out, tinkered with, or completely extinguished, rather than sticking to the stone. This suggests that Aja Raden is a wonderful basic moment of life and, in fact, in all of our lives. From now on, I will stand on my toes along the boundary between true and false, and spend time with a dazzling feeling of how few choices I make.

From here, Raden will take you on a whistle stop tour of hoaxes and weaknesses. She’s not talking here about a small fib, an adult version of hiding spinach under a plate, but about a chunky whopper that can defeat an entire group of peers.Something like Bernie Madov scandalA long-running scam that lasted for 30 years, many very wealthy people who believed in criminals were involved when they promised to make them even wealthier without explaining how. Virtually, and with Madov’s own final approval, he was running a $ 65 billion rat lecture. It used money from a new investor to pay off Mark, who had been in the game for a long time. Everything was fine and dandy until the day when he ran out of fresh meat and the whole unstable structure fell.

Why on earth does anyone, especially the smart and rich, fall into such an obvious nonsense? Raden explains that in a grand plan of things, getting information about trust benefits us. If you feel obliged to test before believing in knowledge, most people will have to spend at least 10 years of adult life to satisfy themselves that the earth is really round (math is it). Suppose it was up to). Raden hasn’t suggested for a moment that the Earth is actually flat. Simply, I learned to rely on collective intelligence and majority voting as a way to shorten the work of many boring growls. In Madov’s case, investors believed his plan must be good just because many others, including the CEO and Hollywood stars, had already thought so.

So the most compelling hoax starts with a mass of truth. Take snake oil. An indentured Chinese worker who built the American transcontinental railroad in the 19th century naturally looked at the medicine box to soothe joint damage and sunburned skin. Snake oil, made by rendering the fat of black water snakes, is very rich in omega 3 and served as an anti-inflammatory agent. Soon the news of its efficacy spread throughout the west of the blistering fingers. Demand exceeded supply (drugs had to be imported from China because there are no black water snakes in North America), and as a result, a number of counterfeits began to emerge. The best or worst was from Clark Stanley, who invented Stanley’s snake oil by boiling rattlesnakes (terribly light on Omega 3) and tweeting something about how the Hopi swore by it. Eventually, Stanley didn’t even care about the essence of the snake, he simply bottled mineral oil and turpentine and put a flashy label on it. And all at once, there are original or rather fake snake oils sold in hundreds of thousands of bottles throughout North America in the 1890s.

The fact that people continued to vow that Stanley’s snake oil relieves pain and pain attests to our human need, Rayden writes. On a crazy scale, she tells how Animal Planet showed the documentary in 2013. The mermaid was real.. Just as dolphins and whales are known to have evolved from early coastal canines, they are not exactly sexy fish women, but from early coastal apes millions of years ago. It was an evolved aquatic animal. Everyone, including Raden himself, was crazy about it. In addition, she wanted to believe it even after the newspaper began to publish spoil sports headlines such as “No, there are no mermaids.” She says she was anxious for the possibility that somewhere in the world where magic was stripped, there was still a corner where magic and mystery still reigned highest.

The truth about lies It claims to be a “classification” of deception, hoaxes, and weaknesses, but it’s not really the case. “Taxonomy” is one of the important and semi-formal sounds. But Raden doesn’t try to bring his story into any kind of relational or ranking system (not even a system that works just because we all agree to its existence). Instead, you’ll get anecdotal rags from the original Ponzi scheme of the 1920s to the slips and slates of the major pharmaceutical companies that led to the current opioid crisis. Everything is very interesting and certainly interesting, but it’s not a serious academic study that Raden will make you believe.