@Spicewalla @JamesGleick I was just listening to the If Books Could Kill podcast episode on John Gray's Men Are from Mars, Women Are From Venus, and it made the point that this country coddles and rewards major grifters. (Gray has no real expertise, a Ph.D. from the same diploma mill his then-wife and also a self-help grifter Barbara De Angelis got hers from, the now-defunct Columbia Pacific Univ.; both also very active in Transcendental Meditation.)