As demonstrated in the past on TIPS, one doesn’t have to go looking for a vast 
right-wing, corporatist conspiracy to think critically about Gladwell’s work. 
But the SHAME Project homepage is an interesting read. It turns out that 
Arianna Huffington and NPR are also in the pockets of the far right-wing 
corporatists.

The SHAME (Shame the Hacks who Abuse Media Ethics) project is a division of 
NSFWCORP<https://www.nsfwcorp.com/archives/>, probably a play on Rupert 
Murdoch’s Newscorp. Digitally thumbing through a few issues provides some 
helpful context on their reporting. If you thought Cory Booker was just the 
former mayor of Newark, NJ who became a senator from New Jersey, you will be 
interested to find out that, “His political career was launched with the help 
of the Chabad-Lubavitchers, a rabidly rightwing Hasidic cult that considers its 
dead Rebbe a messiah and that pushes a regressive right-wing worldview that 
would horrify Booker’s prog supporters: deep- rooted racism, violent 
Islamophobia, medieval positions on everything from abortion to homosexuality 
and women’s rights, and a nasty tendency to normalize sexual abuse and protect 
serial sexual predators in its ranks.”

If nothing else, the site will put the lie to the contention that right-wingers 
have a monopoly on conspiracy theories*. I’m not sure this site can be easily 
placed on the usual left-right continuum. It seems to reflect the worldview of 
Yasha Levine (its founder, who has somehow escaped even having a Wikipedia 
profile but he is mentioned in a number of Wikipedia articles) but you can say 
for sure it is not right of center on that scale.

* Such as in Lewandowski, S., Oberauer, K., & Gignac, G. E. (2013). NASA Faked 
the Moon Landing—Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the 
Motivated Rejection of Science. Psychological Science, 24, 622-633.  
(http://pss.sagepub.com/content/24/5/622)

Rick

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Proverbs 14:15 "A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought 
to his steps."

From: Christopher Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 7:10 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Positive dyslexia

This might give you a somewhat different view of the seemingly affable Malcolm 
Gladwell. As Canadians go, he has more in common with, say, David Frum and 
Conrad Black than you might otherwise think.
http://shameproject.com/report/malcolm-gladwell-unmasked-life-work-of-americas-most-successful-propagandist/

Chris
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Christopher D Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M6C 1G4

chri...@yorku.ca<mailto:chri...@yorku.ca>
http://www.yorku.ca/christo

On Nov 5, 2013, at 5:43 PM, "michael sylvester" 
<msylves...@copper.net<mailto:msylves...@copper.net>> wrote:

 In an interview on Fareed Zakaria's GPS  a fortnight ago,Malcolm Gladwell 
remarked
about the positve compensatory positive aspects of dyslexia.Gladwell nterviewed
a couple of outstanding CEOs and professionals.They all remarked that because 
of their reading deficiences they had to develop extraordinary memorizing 
ability in their work.
michael

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