Derren Brown

I love him, but lately I've begun to think he's a charlatan. He's very talented and charming, his writing is funny and he is interested in a lot of the same things I am, which makes his writing very entertaining. But he is too in love with his TV persona that he is willing to make shows that, I think, gravely mislead people and prey on their gullibility. That is, I think it's likely that most of his shows are fake, and the bits that are least likely to be are often the most boring (like "stage hypnosis" on the most suggestible person in the audience, although that's not to say that he couldn't make great TV that was honest - his personality and chutzpah make him a potential host for many interesting shows).
==Books==
*Tricks of the Mind
==Other writing==
*On Kindness, for The Atheist's Guide to Christmas
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