Lights Out: Not Just the Name of a Book
A reader writes:
I stumbled across your website while I was reading "Lights Out" on the
horrible recommendation of a friend. After about 5 pages, I realized what
a terrible, factually incorrect POS the book was, and I wanted to look up
the author to see if other people thought she was as much of a BS artist
as I did. Lo and behold, the wonderful WileyWatch.org. Anyway, I decided
to finish the book anyway (since I don't like leaving things unfinished),
and as much as it angers me to read completely untrue statements like
"cancer doesn't exist in the wild" and "I bet you've felt severe chest
pains while exercising," I'm almost through it.
I know I can't stand to look at the book on my shelf when I finish it, so
I plan to mail it back to her with a letter stating everything I hated
about it. Based on this site, her and her husband strike me as the type
of insecure people who pay constant attention to anything, bad or good,
said about her, so I'm confident she'll read it. Anyway, do you have a
mailing address for TS Wiley? I haven't been able to find one on her
site, and I'd really rather mail the book back to her then light it on
fire in a trashcan (though I suppose I'll do it if I have to). Thanks for
any assistance you can give me, and keep fighting the good fight.
If you hated LIGHTS OUT, you
If you hated LIGHTS OUT, you must read SEX, LIES AND MENOPAUSE for a ripping good laugh. Wiley actually suggests homosexuality is part of the evolutionary design to decrease the population.
The author's evidence for this is there weren't so many homosexuals around when we were children in the 1950s and 1960s.
Thank you. This prompted me
Thank you. This prompted me to do some more digging into the scholarship of that book (here).
you guys are all assholes
you guys are all assholes everyone on this page badmouths TS Wiley when your just afraid to accept the truth, shes not the only person who thinks homosexuality was created to decrease the population many people did!!! Plus have any of you assholes thought that she might actually be a real person just trying to put her ideas out, and its your choice to look into it and deside for yourself if you believe or not. Your all immature menapausal women who just need to take some fuckin hormones!
Sure the book is ridiculous
Sure the book is ridiculous in many ways, and Wiley thoroughly oversteps the boundaries of what can be considered scientific integrity, but there is still plenty of truth in the book, and it is intriguing because of it. Circadian rhythms ARE controlled by the cycles of serotonin and melatonin secretion, and those biochemicals ARE governed by light and dark cycles. And serotonin and melatonin have all kinds of ties to other hormones in the body, the most important being insulin. Do I really think it's because of artificial lighting that we are in the midst of an epidemic of diabetes and obesity? Well, no. But to ignore the significance of daily and seasonal circadian rhythms, completely writing off the hypothesis of a revolutionary thinker as being pure junk is off kilter as well.
As for her attempts at playing Endocrinologist, all I can say is "Yikes." It baffles me how a nature-worshipper can get into the hormone replacement biz. What next!?
Shameless attempt to get in
Shameless attempt to get in contact with the author. If she so incences you, why waste your time? You seem like one more in a long line of obssesive stalker freaks. Get a hobby. Get a life. Get a real celebrity to love/hate, and clumsily try to get the home address of.
I don't understand why
I don't understand why people are criticizing this book without giving properly informed examples of their arguments? I'm reading the book now and am finding it incredible. I'm a bit confused as to what is so wrong with it? Are you saying that all year round artificial lighting and a diet of processed carbohydrates don't destroy the human immune system?
If you mean to suggest it's
If you mean to suggest it's self-evident that "all year round artificial lighting and a diet of processed carbohydrates" destroy (in your words) the human immune system, you are mistaken. That's nowhere near self-evident. Such claims require substantiation.
Have you checked the sources that T.S. Wiley offers? [1][2] If not, my suggestion is spend half an hour checking the references in her books. There are thousands to choose from. Compare the sources she cites to the claims she makes.