From Jörg Michael
James Hoggan says of the rhetoric of US presidential candidate Donald Trump that “People are mainlining… a cocktail of absolute certainty, strong opinion and talk of control… People turn to such versions of reality because it's mentally more comfortable than dealing with uncertainty and anxiety” (16 July, p 18). We have been here before.
In the aftermath of the 2008 banking crisis you reported research showing that people prefer advice from a confident source, even forgiving a poor track record (6 June 2009, p 15).
Hanover, Germany
