I finally finished reading this book cover to cover, and browsed the EXCELLENT accompanying references pdf (complete with super-convenient embedded hyperlinks). It took me a long time to finish this book, and that it a deficiency on my part, rather than that of the author(s), who make the subject as digestible as possible, and explain the concepts in a way that even a lay reader with no prior knowledge of the field will be able to navigate. Even a precocious middle-schooler should be able to finish it.
If you only pick up one book on the subject, this is worth your time. I’m delighted to see that an audiobook version was finally released, because I think that will make it a lot more digestible (I personally would have finished it a lot sooner if I hadn’t bought it before the audiobook version came out, and I look forward to going through it again in that format – seriously, it was that good). That being said, in a book of this size and scope, expect to find parts that take effort to get through, and parts that you can’t put down (and which parts those are will likely vary from reader to reader). The book as a whole is an investment that will pay off, and if I could go back in time and slap myself upside the head, I would have made myself read this before any of the other books I read for new parents.
I learned something in every chapter, including the ones where I had some familiarity with the subject matter. The chapter on polio, especially, blew my mind. I hope someday in the coming years the authors can publicly reveal their identities and be recognized for the insane amount of work that went into this labor of love.
The treatment of the subject is very systematic, and an especially good format for helping the reader’s retention. Each chapter addresses its subtopics in a good, natural order of progression (and also chronologically where that aids the delivery). Each chapter ends with good summary points helping the reader retain what has been covered, as well as section dealing with counterarguments. The summation at the end of the book is also helpful to tie everything together.
There’s nothing kooky in here (I admit, I was afraid I’d find that). The authors are restrained and very careful about where the evidence points and where evidential deficiencies are and what evidence SHOULD exist but doesn’t. They don’t straw-man opposing arguments. Instead, they steel-man those arguments and THEN address them. The authors quote so many primary sources, I can’t imagine the thousands of hours of legwork and thousands of dollars it had to personally cost them to pull all of those together. The accompanying references pdf deserves its own commendatory shout-out. With over 250 pages of references, most of them conveniently hyperlinked and ALL referenced in such a way as to enable readers to easily track down and verify the claims made. This is written by people who WANT readers to check the sources for themselves, and have made it as easy as humanly possible to do so, and it is the opposite of what we see from organizations like the CDC.
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