Jo V. (jovan) reviewed The Patient from Hell: How I Worked with My Doctors to Get the Best of Modern Medicine and How You Can Too on + 301 more book reviews
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This is an interesting first person perspective of a man's fight against cancer and contains worthwhile information for anyone who finds themselves in similar straits.
I tried strenuously to ignore the author's environmental agenda, which I found exceedingly self-serving. He especially denigrates Bjorn Lomborg's science. Personally, I find Roy Spencer's credentials more impressive than Stephen Schneider's, so I'll accept Spencer's opinion (stated in Climate Confusion) of Lomborg's research (which incidentally is presented in detail in The Skeptical Environmentalist.)
I do however think Dr Schneider might have done better (and certainly avoided destroying his immune system) if he'd looked into the nutritional therapies for cancer. (Yes, he's a by-the-book scientist who doesn't appear to be able to think out of the box of socially acceptable science.)
I tried strenuously to ignore the author's environmental agenda, which I found exceedingly self-serving. He especially denigrates Bjorn Lomborg's science. Personally, I find Roy Spencer's credentials more impressive than Stephen Schneider's, so I'll accept Spencer's opinion (stated in Climate Confusion) of Lomborg's research (which incidentally is presented in detail in The Skeptical Environmentalist.)
I do however think Dr Schneider might have done better (and certainly avoided destroying his immune system) if he'd looked into the nutritional therapies for cancer. (Yes, he's a by-the-book scientist who doesn't appear to be able to think out of the box of socially acceptable science.)
