Fads, Fakes, and Frauds: Exploding Myths in Culture, Science and Psychology is a 2022 book written by Tomasz Witkowski and foreworded by Roy Baumeister.

The fourth part, Under the Scenery of Pop Psychology, encompasses essays addressing misconceptions about contemporary views on loneliness, embodied cognition, misunderstandings of placebo and nocebo effects, and the controversy surrounding Hans Eysenck's fabricated research on lung cancer prevalence.

The final part, Behind the Facade of Therapeutic Culture, is dedicated to assessing the efficacy of psychotherapy, highlighting the lack of research on its adverse effects, and examining the conflicts of interest among its practitioners.

His aim is to demonstrate how we have come to understand and represent these issues in ways that are counterproductive rather than beneficial, and to highlight the muddling of fact, misrepresentation and self-interested fiction in conventional discourse and social policy.

[2] Rouven Schäfer reviewing the book in the Skeptiker wrote: Many cultural achievements are more or less in conflict with reality, since distortions of perception and errors in judgment are part of human nature.