Is this book convincing / attractive to sceptics?
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Re: Is this book convincing / attractive to sceptics?
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To begin with, while the author's description of her personal journey is entertaining, it ultimately only draw focus from the actual topic the book is supposed to be discussing. While her personal journey and the extracts are intimately connected, it felt the structure only used the scientific explanations to supplement the author's journey. If this book were to truly convince people, then only the evidence should be presented.
Furthermore, for any argument to be effective at defending their position it is essential to provide your response to the other sides claims. This book contained none. The author simply stated her side and gave no defense over her ideas when challenged by others in the medical field. The only mentions of disapproving members of the medical community were brief, and their opinion "bought" by pharmaceutical companies. If you are going to claim wide spread conspiracies, you need hard evidence. Paper trails, interviews, documents. None of this is provided by the author to substantiate her claims, and thus will never be taken seriously by skeptics.
For this book to have more impact on the greater medical community, it needs to be strictly about the science behind the extract. No conspiracy theories, no personal stories, just hard data and studies. As mentioned above, the book contains this evidence, however, the way the book is organized the evidence does little in the way of convincing skeptics.
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