Don't know about you, well, I do, sort of,
No, you don't know me. You're jumping to conclusions and insulting me in public, hidden behind a fake name. Neither are you familiar with Dr. Neil. His book covers look terrible, but you can't judge a book by its cover. The works cited list in his ototoxicity book is dozens of pages long. The book itself is 800 pages. Yes! Please, read Dr. Neil's stuff. It's quite good. It is easily the most accessible, thorough and useful guide to ototoxicity I found. I can't vouch for his other books, but the one I read was very, very well done. Why don't you open it yourself to form your own opinion?
I'm accusing you of being biased.
Someone caring enough about an issue to write a book to raise public awareness doesn't make them a quack. You didn't do your homework and you are jumping to conclusions. Either that or you possess the rare skill of knowing everything there is to know about things without even bothering to look. Well, this is the internet and you have a fake name, so I suppose that skill is not so rare. Either way, I politely request that you take your troll back home with you and let me get back on with providing people with
"admittedly helpful" information that just might save their careers.
I think you have me confused with someone who offered an explanation.
No, believe me, I don't. I just wanted to make clear that you aren't offering anything of any use to anyone other than your own studied opinion.
Re: non-peer reviewed. Peer reviewed articles are really only of use to peers. The amount of jargon they contain and the awkward, but required, format of make their contents inaccessible to anyone not trained in research. The works coming out of the peer reviewed system are sometimes great, but almost unreadable. Anyone caring about the thread at this point, try reading this:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3428095?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Riveting, right? It is the role of the peer-reviewed system to judge the quality of an experiment. It is not their role to disseminate information to the public. That role falls to those of us who care enough about the subject to get the word out. FWIW, I was trained in research from birth. My father (a PhD in science education) won a lifetime achievement award from the National Science Teachers Assoc for his work promoting research based education. I won a dozen awards for my various research projects in high school from local and regional research science competitions, and took one project the International Science Expo one year as an alternate. Not all education results in a formal degree. But then some of it does. I took at least three dedicated Research Methods courses in the course of getting my (non-internet) degrees in Music, Psychology, Biology and Education. But then you knew that. Sort of.
