<story><title>News is bad for you</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oskarth</author><text>While I agree with the sentiment, Rolf Dobelli himself is a plagiarist. This whole reasoning is basically stolen from Nassim Taleb.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fooledbyrandomness.com/dobelli.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fooledbyrandomness.com&amp;#x2F;dobelli.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.chabris.com/2013/09/similarities-between-rolf-dobellis-book.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.chabris.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;similarities-between-rolf-do...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: For another take on not reading the news, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aaronsw.com&amp;#x2F;weblog&amp;#x2F;hatethenews&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sazpaz</author><text>His account on the plagiarism story. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dobelli.com/book-corrections/taleb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dobelli.com&amp;#x2F;book-corrections&amp;#x2F;taleb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s definitely easy to see his book as heavily influenced by Taleb, but I supposed everything would be correctly referenced to Taleb — I never actually went to check references. Despite that, the book is a great summary of thinking biases and is clearly explained.</text></comment>
<story><title>News is bad for you</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oskarth</author><text>While I agree with the sentiment, Rolf Dobelli himself is a plagiarist. This whole reasoning is basically stolen from Nassim Taleb.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fooledbyrandomness.com/dobelli.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fooledbyrandomness.com&amp;#x2F;dobelli.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.chabris.com/2013/09/similarities-between-rolf-dobellis-book.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.chabris.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;similarities-between-rolf-do...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: For another take on not reading the news, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aaronsw.com&amp;#x2F;weblog&amp;#x2F;hatethenews&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joecurry</author><text>The rebuttal from Dobelli &amp;gt;&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dobelli.com/book-corrections/taleb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dobelli.com&amp;#x2F;book-corrections&amp;#x2F;taleb&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>