by aedmans | 3 Dec 2025 | Critical Thinking
“I am – I was – a geek. I played chess. I was the British girls under-14 champion.” So said Rachel Reeves in a Guardian interview. The Independent, Sky News, and Reuters ran similar headlines: They claimed that her chess ability would lead to her becoming a successful...
by aedmans | 3 Jan 2025 | Critical Thinking
Chris van Tulleken’s “Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … And Why Can’t We Stop?”, on the dangers of Ultra-Processed Food (UPF), was one of the most successful books of 2023. It was a #1 Sunday Times Bestseller and an Economist, Daily...
by aedmans | 25 Jul 2024 | Critical Thinking
In March 2022, my LinkedIn feed lit up with people sharing this article: It is by Reuters, a highly-respected news source, on a report by Arabesque, an asset manager and data provider I greatly admire and wrote about in Grow the Pie. It was taken at face...
by aedmans | 23 Jul 2024 | Critical Thinking
The opioid epidemic has seen the over-prescription of opioids as painkillers. An estimated 645,000 people died from opioid use between 1999 to 2021 in the U.S. alone, with the figure running into millions worldwide. Why was something prescribed which is so clearly...
by aedmans | 23 Apr 2024 | Critical Thinking
In May Contain Lies, I highlight the value of academic research. While it’s far from perfect, it can be more reliable than practitioner studies for a number of reasons: Its goal is scientific inquiry, rather than advocacy of a pre-existing position or releasing...
by aedmans | 22 Apr 2024 | Critical Thinking
A widely quoted statistic is that only 2% of VC funding goes to female founders. For example, this Forbes article highlights that “only 2% of all VC funding goes to women-led startups” and asks “Why is only 2% of VC funding going to female...
