You learn to dismantle those who want to deceive us, you learn to tell the truth.

Reading note

How to Lie with Charts

by Alberto Cairo — read in October 2025

Alberto teaches us to lie with the infographic illusion of scientific data. If there's a number, we tend to believe. It seems all "data driven," it seems all impartial. Here we learn the rhetoric of visualizations, we learn how to mask a narrative by presenting it as the only rational one. You learn to dismantle those who want to deceive us, you learn to tell the truth.