Wrong: Why Experts Scientists, Finance Wizards, Doctors, Relationship Gurus, Celebrity Ceos, High-powered Consultants, Health Officials and More Keep Failing Us---and How to Know When Not to Trust Them
Our investmeents are devastated, obesity is epidemic, blue-chip companies circle the drain, and popular medications turn out to be ineffective and even dangerous. What happened? Didn't we listen to the scientists, economists, and other experts who promised us that if we followed their advice all would be well?



Actually, those experts are a big reason we're in this mess. Their expert counsel usually turns out to be wrong-often wildly so. Wrong reveals the dangerously distorted ways experts come up with their advice and why the most heavily flawed conclusions end up getting the most attention-all the more so in the online era. But there's hope: Wrong spells out the means by which every individual and organization can do a better job of unearthing the crucial bits of right within a vast avalanche of misleading pronouncements.
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Wrong: Why Experts Scientists, Finance Wizards, Doctors, Relationship Gurus, Celebrity Ceos, High-powered Consultants, Health Officials and More Keep Failing Us---and How to Know When Not to Trust Them
Our investmeents are devastated, obesity is epidemic, blue-chip companies circle the drain, and popular medications turn out to be ineffective and even dangerous. What happened? Didn't we listen to the scientists, economists, and other experts who promised us that if we followed their advice all would be well?



Actually, those experts are a big reason we're in this mess. Their expert counsel usually turns out to be wrong-often wildly so. Wrong reveals the dangerously distorted ways experts come up with their advice and why the most heavily flawed conclusions end up getting the most attention-all the more so in the online era. But there's hope: Wrong spells out the means by which every individual and organization can do a better job of unearthing the crucial bits of right within a vast avalanche of misleading pronouncements.
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Wrong: Why Experts Scientists, Finance Wizards, Doctors, Relationship Gurus, Celebrity Ceos, High-powered Consultants, Health Officials and More Keep Failing Us---and How to Know When Not to Trust Them

Wrong: Why Experts Scientists, Finance Wizards, Doctors, Relationship Gurus, Celebrity Ceos, High-powered Consultants, Health Officials and More Keep Failing Us---and How to Know When Not to Trust Them

by David H. Freedman

Narrated by George K. Wilson

Unabridged — 10 hours, 35 minutes

Wrong: Why Experts Scientists, Finance Wizards, Doctors, Relationship Gurus, Celebrity Ceos, High-powered Consultants, Health Officials and More Keep Failing Us---and How to Know When Not to Trust Them

Wrong: Why Experts Scientists, Finance Wizards, Doctors, Relationship Gurus, Celebrity Ceos, High-powered Consultants, Health Officials and More Keep Failing Us---and How to Know When Not to Trust Them

by David H. Freedman

Narrated by George K. Wilson

Unabridged — 10 hours, 35 minutes

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Our investmeents are devastated, obesity is epidemic, blue-chip companies circle the drain, and popular medications turn out to be ineffective and even dangerous. What happened? Didn't we listen to the scientists, economists, and other experts who promised us that if we followed their advice all would be well?



Actually, those experts are a big reason we're in this mess. Their expert counsel usually turns out to be wrong-often wildly so. Wrong reveals the dangerously distorted ways experts come up with their advice and why the most heavily flawed conclusions end up getting the most attention-all the more so in the online era. But there's hope: Wrong spells out the means by which every individual and organization can do a better job of unearthing the crucial bits of right within a vast avalanche of misleading pronouncements.

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‘Developing and maintaining sustainable business and supply chain practices are no longer optional for firms today. Purchasing and Supply Chain Management: A Sustainability Perspective, provides cutting-edge insight and direction for students, practitioners, and academics to successfully analyze, develop and manage purchasing and supply chain management practices that are critical for holistically improving "triple bottom-line" performance in terms firm and supply chain financial performance (profits), society (people), and the natural environment (planet).’ - George A. Zsidisin, Ph.D., C.P.M., Professor of Supply Chain Management, Virginia Commonwealth University, Co-Editor, ‘Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management’

‘This book takes a fresh look at purchasing and supply chain management. First, traditional concepts of purchasing and supply chain management are well covered. Second, sustainability issues are incorporated so that a more inclusive picture emerges. This text will prepare students well for future challenges.’ - Prof. Dr. Stefan Seuring, Professor of Supply Chain Management, University of Kassel, Germany

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BN ID: 2940170750962
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Publication date: 06/16/2010
Edition description: Unabridged
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