T. Vedder

Totally disregardable.

Revisado: 03-24-25

This book came well recommended, and I was looking forward to an earnest counterpoint to the a priori nonexistence of alien visitation. Unfortunately this is actually one of the most credulous and completely non-serious arguments I’ve ever heard. It’s wrapped up in arguments from authority and begging the question. I don’t blame the individual case reporters, though many of them exhibit an astounding lack of humility. Off but the author herself does an absolutely terrible job of coming up with any credible piece of objective or even subjective evidence. Undoubtedly humans have been perceiving things for millennia that they can’t completely identify; on a daily basis in fact. But without a single compelling argument, her lack of an argument seems to boil down to: we have no idea what this is, so we absolutely know exactly what this is. The Voice talent does a good job, but messes up a number of military terms and concepts, and pronounces “authority“ unusually!

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Flawed, but worth listening to.

Revisado: 01-08-25

Overall, this is an excellent and eye-opening book. He takes some liberties with some of his pet ideas where he gets seduced by conspiracy and sort of abandons his commitment to the scientific methods, but overall a very well-researched book with some maddening history.

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Great ideas and stories, humorously written.

Revisado: 01-08-25

Love Andrew Heaton's "voice". Such a great presentation of the stupid things that divide us.

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Muck needed summary of pseudoscience in mental health care.

Revisado: 11-16-24

An Accessible summary of the problem of quackery in healthcare.
RFK Jr fans should take note.

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Historical perspective.

Revisado: 05-05-24

Well-researched and objective look at this industry. It’s infuriating, but I see why people are victimized by these companies.

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Important POV.

Revisado: 02-19-23

He does a great job of presenting the reality of the world around us, and uncovers the incentives of the people and groups who benefit from us seeing otherwise. And also points out that many of the famous researchers that caused us to see each other as monsters are, ironically, the real monsters.

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Fantastic, objective, and current

Revisado: 05-28-20

Great book. Audiobook was well-done. Very useful information, and very up-to-date. Perfect for the lay-person interested in healthcare, but I even learned some things from my own specialty that I wasn’t totally clear on.

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A few meaningful minutes, the rest is bogus

Revisado: 09-02-19

Less a book about mindfulness and more about bogus spiritual babble. The first 1/3 is decent, but then it descends into bogus spiritual babble. Chakras and rocks vs water and all that make-believe namaste crap.

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Doesn’t work as audiobook, even with pdf and online materials

Revisado: 04-09-19

There’s nothing I hate more than wasting my time sitting down reading a physical book, but I just dont think this works as an audiobook. Most training books don’t but I thought I’d give it a shot.

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No thanks “Dr” Mercola.

Revisado: 10-07-18

This work of BS lost me entirely with its foreword by known con-artist, Joseph Mercola. No thanks!

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