Following up on the responses to his talk criticizing “skeptics,” science journalist John Horgan defends the work of Robert Whitaker and Anatomy of an Epidemic. “Novella and Gorski dismiss Whitaker’s book, citing a negative review by E. Fuller Torrey. They do not mention that Torrey, a psychiatrist, has a strong bias against Whitaker’s thesis.” See Whitaker’s detailed rebuttal of Torrey’s review here.
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