If someone said it was true, she seemed to not only accept it, despite glaring flaws in the methods for those studies, but used the bad studies to argue her opinion. She seems to lack critical thinking skills when it comes to psychology studies, never questioning the methods. She even seems to have a really good grasp of Thomas Kuhn's arguments and yet, she failed to realize the science she researched for this book has been pushed out by the very methods Kuhn elucidated in book, in fact the very methods she, herself, wrote about in this very book. Shah spends an awful lot of time focused on paradigm shifts in science. Pandemic is more current for certain, but David Quammen, the Author of Spillover, is by far more scientifically literate. I am in the middle of reading Spillover and am enjoying it much more than this book. A true story that is both gripping and alarming, Pandemic delves deep into the convoluted science, strange politics, and the checkered history of one of the world’s deadliest diseases, offering a prelude to the future that’s impossible to ignore.
As Shah traces each stage of cholera’s dramatic journey from harmless microbe to world-changing pandemic, she reports on the pathogens that have followed cholera’s footsteps-from the MRSA bacterium that besieges her own family to the never-before-seen killers emerging from China’s wet markets, the surgical wards of New Delhi, the slums of Port-au-Prince, and the suburban backyards of the East Coast.
In Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, prizewinning journalist Sonia Shah reveals how that could happen, by drawing parallels between cholera-one of history’s most deadly and disruptive pandemic-causing pathogens-and the new diseases that stalk us today. Experts around the world are bracing for a deadly, disruptive pandemic.
Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new territory. A thrilling glimpse into the next likely global contagion-and how to stop it.
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