Wow this review: Her first, career-making book, “The Beauty Myth,” is well-known for exaggerating the number of women who died of anorexia (Wolf stated that anorexia kills 150,000 women annually; the actual figure at the time, in the mid-1990s, was said to be closer to 50 or 60).
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One academic paper found that fully 18 of the 23 statistics about anorexia in the book were inaccurate and coined a term — “WOLF” (Wolf’s Overdo and Lie Factor) — to determine the degree to which Wolf was wrong.
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“On average, a statistic on anorexia by Naomi Wolf should be divided by eight to get close to the real figure.”https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/books/review-outrages-naomi-wolf.html …
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I wasn’t referring to Wolf. I really knew little about her before she went
#COVID19 crank, and she’s not a scientist anyway. I was referring to John Ioannidis. -
OK, I was surprised you'd admire her given your predilection for actual facts.
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