Each review asks where the book's claims come from, whether the research behind them has held up, and what a reader can actually use. Judged on evidence, not the bestseller list.
Every review separates controlled studies from the author's practice and from anecdote.
If a finding a book depends on failed to replicate, the review says which one.
Each review ends with the parts worth using, even when the book overreaches.
A self-help book should be judged by whether its advice works, not by how confidently it is written.
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