This is arguably off-topic here, except that it once again illustrates the repeated collective wrongness of experts who operate by professional concensus.
Dump those statins! More ice cream and cheesecake and BBQ ribs!
I'm just starting this book, but it's a lot of fun:
Its perspective is mostly about how genetics, predisposition, affects the way people think. I haven't read it all, but a quick scan looks like it doesn't assign much weight to the power of social inputs (tribal concensus, personal hostility, leader charisma) or of fear (includes fear of being different or wrong) in shaping how people reason.
Electronics is (usually) good training for thinking, because we get complex quantitative puzzles and serious, timely feedback on what we decide to do.