This book offers an insightful analysis of the factors behind the widespread success of misinformation and the growing mistrust of media and journalism, emphasizing the significant threat this poses to societal stability.

However, Rob Wijnberg's historical overview of the concept of truth is overly simplistic. He contrasts the 'dark Middle Ages,' depicted as a period where religion imposed truth on the uneducated and suppressed scientific inquiry, with the Renaissance, which he claims marked the dawn of critical thinking and liberation from religious dogma. Although Wijnberg briefly acknowledges exceptions to this view, he largely overlooks the consensus among historians that the Church played a crucial role in education, scientific research, and critical thinking throughout history, particularly during the Middle Ages. This oversimplification seems designed to support his thesis but ultimately undermines it by distorting historical facts.

In conflating a stereotypical and historically inaccurate view of the Middle Ages as the 'Dark Ages' with his aversion to contemporary evangelical and dogmatic thinking, Wijnberg weakens his argument. A more nuanced and accurate historical perspective would have strengthened his overall point.