Why We Fall for Charlatans, with Quico Toro
The Lawfare Podcast | 30 October 2025 | 0h 32m | Listen Later
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Interview with Quico Toro about his book Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses, co-authored with Moisés Naím. Discusses what defines a charlatan, the cognitive biases they exploit to take people in, and how technological and societal changes have made charlatanism one of today’s most urgent crises.
See also Quico Toro’s Substack One Percent Brighter my favourite writing on climate change.