"Gladwell seems to misunderstand why critics dislike him: It's not because he weaves together various case studies. (That's actually the best part!) It's because the central binding idea is weak or wrong, and he doesn't seem to care."

"Taken all together, Gladwell operates in such bad faith that it justifies removing his past, present, and future body of work from the public discourse."

https://culture.ghost.io/forget-gladwell/ by W. David Marx