"It’s been a long time since I reviewed a book that I gave up on. I always figure that I just won’t waste my time. It’s also extremely rare that I stop reading a book by someone I disagree with. I typically finish it just so I can better understand the viewpoint so I can engage in better discussions with the opposition or just “know the enemy� better. But I had to stop this book because it was not only ridiculous, but it was dangerous in a way that I’m not a fan of. Worst of all, this book baits you in by making you think it’s going to be a sane, rational book.

A book like this is tricky to gauge by the title and description. As a recovering pill addict, I’m extremely skeptical of doctors and Big Pharma, but I also understand that not all doctors and not all medications are bad. When grabbing a book like this, you don’t know if the reader is going to give you a realistic view of the topic and explain how people like the Sackler family are monsters or if it’s going to get into some insane anti-vax stuff.

I’d never heard of the author, so I wasn’t sure which way it’d go. After looking at her previous books, she seemed like she panders to the right a bit, but I still decided to give the book a try. I was concerned about it being an anti-vax book, but I was pleasantly surprised…at first.

The book starts rational enough. It made some really good points about Big Pharma, doctors, how medications are researched and all that. It was really good information, so I figured maybe I was wrong about her. There was somewhat of a green flag when she discussed the Tuskegee experiments, but unsurprisingly, she used this simply as a way to start spouting insanity.

At one point early in the book, the first red flag popped up when she dove into some anti-trans rhetoric. She legitimately talked about how much money, power, and influence LGBTQ organizations have over the government, and I audibly laughed out loud. She made it sound like The Trevor Project has more influence over Washington than companies like Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson.

Then, she goes full anti-vax. Not just COVID anti-vax, either. She dives head first into “vaccines cause autism� terrotory, which has been debunked for years. What really set me off about this book was when she played the victim. She says something along the lines of, “When I write about worker’s rights, I’m pro-worker. But when I write about the dangers of vaccines causing autism, I’m labeled as anti-vax�, and that was a big fat YIKES for me.

After the brief glimpse of sanity early on in the book, it starts getting into chapter after chapter of anti-vax nonsense. It’s a long book, too. Not only did I stop reading it because it was long and I knew it’d be torture, but books like this are extremely dangerous. Psychologically, people assume a long book discussing “the dangers of vaccines� makes it more credible, but in reality, it just gives you more BS to fact check.

This is going to be a book people point to as “evidence� about the dangers of vaccines and God knows what else, so I figured I’d do my due diligence to let you know how awful it was.
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