Oh no, I literally bought that book for my TBR. 😭 But are you sure it's him? I remember reading that he was fired from his trauma center for being a really toxic manager and for bullying staff, but I don't remember seeing S/A allegations against him. I thought those were about the Trauma Center's director, Joseph. Did something new come out, or am I mixing up the cases?

i've listened to that episode!!!!

Yes! I love that podcast so much!

I was just going to say this podcast just did an ep about this book!

omg lol 😂 so I did read the whole book probably a decade ago. But I don’t much remember it. I have had to read 4 chapters for class and when I say they have been so enraging, I mean like, I am in my room screaming “WHAT” all by myself. Bc I am the dystopian lady here, I think this is a salient thing for me to present… it doesn’t represent the content but it does represent how goddamn bonkers aspects of it are, unexpectedly and (this is key) FOR NO FUCKING REASON. Apropos of NOTHING, the author says that John Bowlby, a literally acclaimed child psychiatrist who developed attachment theory (as in when we look at a problematic man and deem him “avoidant attachment final boss”), told him (the author) that George Orwell’s classic book, 1984 had been inspired by little British boys from upper-class families being sent to boarding school at young ages. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. YEAH. What the fuck, you fucking weirdo? What a fucking weird thing to say. This has absolutely nothing to do with the bulk of the content, which is… gratuitously graphic when addressing topics like child abuse and SA/CSA in a way that my 2026 brain finds so harmful, and alarming to see in a book marketed for just like, regular degular people at the goddamn airport. (My approximately 2016 brain apparently didn’t feel that way, but that was a brain in its 20s that spent a frankly unwise amount of time listening to true crime podcasts, so that brain doesn’t know what’s up or down anymore). Other notables from the 4 recently read chapters:

• fat people at a medical weight loss clinic apparently were comprised “mostly” of folks who had sexually abused as children 🤨
• the author believes psychiatric medications make the folks taking them “more tractable but” they “also impair their ability to feel pleasure and curiosity, to grow and develop emotionally and intellectually, and to become contributing members of society”
• sentence presented without comment from me: “There are hundreds of thousands of children like the ones I am about to describe, and they absorb enormous resources, often without appreciable benefit. They end up filling our jails, our welfare rolls, and our medical clinics.”
• another sentence presented without comment: “How do you turn a newborn baby with all its promise and infinite capacities into a thirty-year-old homeless drunk?”

And then of course you have the actual researchers he has cited in the book saying that he cherry-picked their research or misrepresented it to fit his narrative…

And then you have the author being fired from the trauma center he founded back in 2018 for… some kind of workplace malpractice vis a vis his employees. Unclear whether we are dealing with an Ellen DeGeneres or a Matt Lauer situation there.

And then you have the author being an expert witness in the 90s with recovered memories vis a vis CSA… and still in the book espousing a lot of pseudoscience, including the recovered memories shtick

I could probably keep going but these were the mains

You know it 😁

I have not! I can't remember where I found out about it!