Antifragile was a New York Times Bestseller and praised by critics in a litany of notable periodicals including the Harvard Business Review,[27] Fortune magazine,[28] the New Statesman,[29] and The Economist,[30] and Forbes.[31] Although Boyd Tonkin of The Independent criticized Taleb’s style as "vulgar, silly, slapdash and infuriating", of the ideas in the book he remarked "time and again I returned to two questions about his core ideas: Is he right, and does it matter? My verdict? Yes, and yes."[32] Michael Shermer gave the book a generally favorable review[33] but Taleb responded in Nature magazine that "Michael Shermer mischaracterizes the concept of ‘antifragility’...