Doctoring Data: How to sort out medical advice from medical nonsense

That’s the name of a book: *Doctoring Data* by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick. It teaches you how to spot misleading medical claims and understand the tricks used in health research and media. But you could easily generalize it to all kinds of data. The mindset is there — the idea — and you can definitely see the same patterns in almost any other industry, not just healthcare.

I’m not skeptical or overly suspicious about how data is presented to us; it’s just so evident that data is being manipulated in every possible way. It’s not about fabricating — it’s about translating it in a way that triggers a certain reaction from you.

I recommend reading this book. Many so-called conspiracies are explained and rationalized, and I think it gives you a general sense of how to interpret data — how to question not just the source, but the logic behind the conclusions. At least, that’s what it triggered for me.