The book deserves the popularity and the praise. It's a marvel of statistical communication. It also made Darrell Huff a nerd legend. Ben Goldacre, an epidemiologist and bestselling author of Bad Science, has written admiringly of how "The Huff" had written a "ripper." The American writer Charles Wheelan describes his book Naked Statistics as "an homage" to Huff's "classic." The respected journal Statistical Science organized a Huff retrospective fifty years after its publication.#397•
As Huff wrote, "The crooks already know these tricks; honest men must learn them in self-defense."#393•