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Moving on from what is possibly the best book I've ever read, to what inspired the best films I've ever seen.

I'm puttin' this book to rest tomorrow!

All hell's about to break loose...

Never read this many pages of ONE book before...lovin' it

This book is SO amazing, I'm actually dreading writing a review for it. It's going to turn out to be like a academic paper!!!

It's all coming back together...

"...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables"

Seeing is believing - the main reason why smart people ascribe to alternative medicines. Yet he outlines why seeing is NOT believing regarding medicine. I find it intriguing how such a pattern of argument can work for science, but not for faith or any humanity studies.

Initially, and before getting to far into the section, I like the herbalist's philosophy that "Mother Nature knows best." But I think it would only work comprehensibly if humans lived in total harmony and symbiotically with her.

Wow...did Singh have a bad experience with a chiropractor in his younger days? He's attacking chiropractors' characters, not just their practice or methodology!

It seems that Hahnemann's philosophies and medical realizations have been grossly escalated, perhaps beyond his intentions, simply for profiteering. For me, there is no other explanation for homeopathy's continued rise, or even existence.

Actually, I've never heard of Homeopathy, but, like a new medical practice before proper testing and implementation, it seems really far-fetched.

These guys do a great job of anticipating rebuttals, questions, or attempts to poke holes in the material by the reader, regarding the science - which, to me, is not the only verifier or "arbiter" of Truth. But, for the sake of the subject matter, these guys are EXCELLENT!

Accupuncture - is it possible, that Ch'i was the best way to describe a truth that we describe by different jargon today - namely the flow of blood and it's effect as our life source? Just because they could best describe it 2,000 years ago in more ethereal terms, doesn't change the TRUTH about what they were describing; in the same way as technical, scientific jargon describes that same truth in modern times.

Pluggin' away...

Very fluid read...despite the subject matter. Nice. Still bothers me that these guys define themselves, and science, as the only authority on Truth. I wonder how open minded THEY would be in a discussion of philosophy, religion, history, etc

Wow...these guys are pompous. It's not that I disagree with their approach, persay, but I have a hard time adopting a perspective that limits the quality of "truth" to ONLY the validity of science. But, regarding medicine and alternate treatments, I'll play along.

Start of Book 3...start of another tangent. Though I think I need them. The story is super intense.

Finally, back to the story, I think, after 60 pages about the battle of Waterloo. It was still beautifully, and brilliantly, written.

Back to the awesomeness!

This stuff is heavy...in a GREAT way!

I keep waiting for Wise to fall into the trap of those he accuses, namely generalizing about them. But every assertion he makes is backed by sociological data (surveys, reports) which bring the reader not only to see through his eyes, but see racism as illogical and ignorant. At least his feeling towards the institution of white power is logical.