Unfortunately, while such humble epistemic abstinence can be admirable, somewhere we have to make definite moral judgments.

ECONOMIST: Letters | The

After Johnson explains all about information misconsumption, epistemic loops and agnotology, he devotes part two of the book to delivering enlightened diet tips.

FORBES: Connect

Yet he keeps fact and fantasy clear enough in his own head and, despite a sympathetic ear, cannot really hide the fact that this book is an extended visit to the epistemic zoo.

ECONOMIST: The other millennium bug

We eagerly romp with him through the follies of confirmation bias (our tendency to reaffirm our beliefs rather than contradict them), narrative fallacy (our weakness for compelling stories), silent evidence (our failure to account for what we don't see), ludic fallacy (our willingness to oversimplify and take games or models too seriously), and epistemic arrogance (our habit of overestimating our knowledge and underestimating our ignorance).

WSJ: Shattering the Bell Curve