Calling Bullshit

This book was a mixed bag of sorts. On the one hand, the authors recognise that bullshit is high art, spread through fake news factories and hammering away at our critical facilities through volume and confirmation bias alone.
On the other hand, Calling Bullshit treats itself as high art. It contains gems such as “you must treat others with kindness because the power you've gained is tremendous, and there's no need to be too high and mighty”. I could also express the book in pamphlet form for what it's worth - without losing an iota of coherency - in its current state, it simply felt bloated.
I'm afraid I have to disagree with the author's treatment of the topic - to give out one line of a rebuttal, he prefers pages of exposition. Given the book's title, it's ironic that I could make a strong case against the book itself as to how bullshit cloaks itself in a veneer of volume and intellect. Studies showing ‘females could run faster than males in 2156' are refuted as bullshit because ‘by this logic, 100-meter races could be run in negative time by 2536', and the core argument that females might run faster than males in the future is never addressed by the authors.
I could even argue that the book's climax, in which the authors show how ‘well, actually...' person is different from the ‘bullshit denier', is simply what the authors do all along. Well-intentioned claims that the wage pay gap exists because recommendations for women mention their communication abilities more than their intelligence are downplayed in the book just because some tweets misquoted the original study. Examples like these make for extremely frustrating reading.
This book feels like an introductory primer for tackling misinformation, which is okay for most, I guess, but not for me.

The most well-written book on skepticism and critical thinking I have read thus far.

Super important book to read nowadays. For everyone. Shows just how we as a society treat science and technology as a contemporary magic. This book reminds us of the basic principles of scientific method and how it helps to interpret information and gives tools to criticize unsound research.