Wall Street Journal Reviews “Scan Artist”

One of the first major news outlets to raise questions about Evelyn Wood’s speed-reading method ran a review of my book Scan Artist on its Opinion page today. It’s good to see the WSJ again describing Wood’s claims as “preposterous.” The book includes portions of my interview with Ira West, the young journalist who raised questions about the effectiveness of the method back in 1967. As the Journal wrote then, some large corporations that had enrolled employees in Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics courses had quietly stopped doing so after discovering that the instruction was ineffective. The same was true of the US Air Force Academy.