Popular scholarship
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Who fact checks a ghostwritten expert book with a celebrity name on the cover?
Endnotes in trade books keep shrinking because publishers and readers both prefer the story
What gets lost when a dissertation becomes a bestseller with the caveats removed
Why popular scholarship ages faster than the research it summarizes
Freakonomics sold an economics of cleverness and later studies came back mixed
Jared Diamond's grand sweep against the archaeologists who say the details do not fit
The TED talk format turned popular scholarship into a fifteen minute performance
Trade nonfiction sells certainty while the underlying studies report modest effects
The tipping point metaphor names the moment and hides the mechanism
Optimistic nihilism is a YouTube essay genre with a self-help aftertaste
Stephen Jay Gould wrote essays that scientists and general readers both cited
The peer review a popular science book never gets
Why popular scholarship counts for little in academic promotion
Gladwell's tipping point made a metaphor famous and researchers are still untangling it
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