The fair test: can the practitioner demonstrate the work live? Fake NLP hides behind certificates and transformation promises; real NLP shows up as visible listening and calibration skill you can watch working in a session or webinar.
Is NLP Fake?
Not fake — genuinely trainable skills exist inside NLP. Also genuinely oversold: theory that outran evidence, and marketing that outruns both. The scam risk is real, and it lives in the selling, not the skills.
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ShriViral Manek, Institute of NLP India · reviewed 30 Sept 2026