War on Infographics

Megan McArdle at The Atlantic critiques the recent online infographics trend:

…it’s time to get down to a war that really matters: the war on terrible, lying infographics, which have become endemic in the blogosphere, and constantly threaten to break out into epidemic or even pandemic status.

The reservoir of this disease of erroneous infographics is internet marketers who don’t care whether the information in their graphics is right … just so long as you link it.

Megan critiques a series of infographics and is well worth the read.