Nonfiction and Nonsense

  • The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber – Introduction and Part 1

    I’m only a quarter of the way through this book, and I am already willing to give it great praise. If you by any chance read my reviews of Gulp by Mary Roach, decided to pick up that book, read it, and enjoyed it, you would probably enjoy this book too. The introduction briefly discusses…

  • Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder – Chapters 1-16

    Imagine living in a country where everyone hates you because of a crime you committed, because there seems to be no reason for why you did what you did, the truth being that everything you did was in hopes of saving yourself and countless others. On top of that, you cannot tell anyone the reason…

  • Toxic Psychiatry by Peter R. Breggin, M.D. – Part 5: Chapter 16 and final thoughts

    Toxic Psychiatry concludes with a chapter that gives us what we need, a run down of the alternatives to medication. Most options that do not involve a psychiatrist, pills, and psychiatric facilities, are less expensive for the patient and less damaging for their mind. If a person in need says the wrong thing to their…

  • Toxic Psychiatry by Peter R. Breggin, M.D. – Part 4: Chapter 12 through Chapter 15

    The first half of Part 4 focuses on children with behavioral problems, starting with how parents are sometimes quick to place the blame on the child and a biological cause, rather than place blame on what is more likely the cause of the problems, the parents themselves, school environment, family issues, various forms of abuse,…

  • Toxic Psychiatry by Peter R. Breggin, M.D. – Part 3: Chapter 10 and Chapter 11

    Chapter 10 introduces us to anxiety and all things related. Back in the 1990s, anxiety was stated as being the number one health problem in Americans, and it is probably still a major concern today (thanks in part to the plague of 2020). To handle anxiety, we must first identify what about the thing making…