Unpaywalled: The science of Johann Hari

We are sorry we’ve been missing so many episodes recently! Stuart’s been busy and Tom’s been… also busy. We’re busy. Hopefully back to normal service next week.

In the meantime, here’s an old paid episode, unpaywalled. Apologies.

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Johann Hari is a journalist with an interesting past who has now written four very popular books on scientific topics (addiction, depression, attention, and obesity). Are those books any good?

In this paid-subscriber-only episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart—who have both written reviews of Hari’s books—discuss Hari’s career, his sudden emergence as a science writer, and exactly how many miles you need to travel around the world to ensure your book becomes a New York Times bestseller.

Show Notes

* The funniest bad book review ever, of The Meaning of Disgust by Colin McGinn (review by Nina Strohminger)

* Hari’s corrections page for his new book where he discusses the Jay Rayner debacle

* Article about Hari’s quotations of Antonio Negri

* Brian Whelan’s criticism of Hari from 2011

* And another article by the same author on the same topic

* Guy Walters on Hari in the New Statesman