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gk1412's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Antisemitism, Death, Racism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Blood, Body shaming, Child abuse, Deportation, Hate crime, Transphobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence
ejs22's review against another edition
4.5
Note: The whole purpose of this book is to condemn unethical actions, and it sympathizes with victims before it does anything else. If you’re worried about despicable acts being justified, don’t be!
Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Minor: Abortion and Animal cruelty
lindapatin's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Medical content, and Medical trauma
kyliebloch's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Murder, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Slavery
lauramegan's review against another edition
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Racism, and Slavery
monstersinspace's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Medical content, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Ableism, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, and Child abuse
Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Antisemitism, Blood, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Slavery, Body horror, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Racism, and Suicide
arijones91's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, Animal death, and Medical content
kjones13's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Animal cruelty
phoebemurtagh's review against another edition
3.5
They some things shouldn't be attempted by the faint of heart or squeamish. As a squeamish person myself, I'd like to refine that: you can most certainly attempt, but you might need to skim through the physical descriptions of how to perform an ice pick lobotomy.
This was a good collection of scientists gone bad: some of the stories were disturbing and familiar ones I'd already heard, while some were disturbing and new. My only criticisms would be that while such a book must necessarily take a dark sense of humor, I found the author's attempts at levity in the face of evil just a little irreverent sometimes. More disappointingly, though, the author refers to bunk science as "voodoo" in at least one place; it's a small thing, but perpetuating a stereotype that African disaporic religious traditions that developed as a result of American slavery are somehow 'less valid' and the equivalent of bad science is below the mark for any journalist.
All in all, I preferred The Disappearing Spoon, but this is a good book, too.
Graphic: Physical abuse, Gore, Classism, Animal death, Religious bigotry, Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Medical trauma, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Death, Animal cruelty, Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror
kc_onmybookshelf's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Antisemitism, Blood, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, and Medical content
Moderate: Murder, Suicide, and Torture