Talk:The Fix (book)
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Update, disclosure
editI have included the paperback publication date, and mentioned The Washington Post review. Note that as I blog for The Telegraph, a conflict of interest may be construed among the related articles Damian Thompson and Counterknowledge. Cheers. WilliamH (talk) 16:55, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Why is this book listed in Wiki
editI have only just stumbled upon the book while browsing through Amazon, and while I searched for other references to it was very surprised to find a discussion of it in Wikipedia.
- Is this page justified/justifiable?
- I cannot see anything suggesting that the author has any scientific credentials. Given this, why is there such a focus on his 'opinion' that addiction is a character flaw?
- The article appears to be made up largely of quotes taken from reviews. It does state that there was a 'dispute' between the author and another journalist about the causes of addiction, but I remain puzzled - there is no scientific discussion here, just opinions being thrown around regarding a little-known book (currently ranked 17,391 paid in Kindle Store).
- It does not appear that this book's author has even mentioned the difference between addiction and dependency - yet another reason to question the value of the book and its Wikipedia page.
So... why does this page exist, other than as an advertisement for a journalist's discussion of a personal view of addiction? I look forward to any sensible explanation of its value as an encyclopaedia entry, before recommending that it be deleted (or perhaps encouraging someone who has a clue about the deletion process to do so). Ambiguosity (talk) 10:36, 21 December 2016 (UTC)