Adam Sobel: There's a long list of books that claim to give us the latest science on various aspects of life. He says people are reading them thinking they're true because after all it was in Lancet or it was in the journal or whatever. Sobel: I've always found not to pass the sniff test, but it turns out doesn't pass the replication test. The amount of ideas that I'm actually willing to do that for is actually very small.