Ragen (Iron Fat's) book reviews are in! And they're hilarious! So while searching for a book on Amazon, I came upon a link to Ragen's book, "Fat:The Owners Manual", (seriously that's what its called) and the reviews are fucking priceless. I will post the first (and highest rated) comment below, but first, a rundown of some of the "Fat: The Owners Manual" review titles: "Do not fall for this scam artist" "Reader, beware" "Written by an angry highschool girl??" "I want my money and my time back"   "Don't buy into this nonsense. She is leading her readers to an early death." "Falsified Credentials, Bad Science, and Miserable Untruths"  and my personal favorite.... Shoddy editing led me down the Ragen Chastain rabbit hole... By: Pen Name August 3, 2014 "To get it out of the way, I am overweight. I have been for my entire adult life and along with that have come professional and personal limitations with a world that doesn't like "fat" people. Let me caveat that I bought this book used from a third party amazon vendor so there may be an updated edition. First and foremost, the editing is so bad that this book is essentially unreadable. There are numerous spacing, punctuation and spelling errors. The author starts thoughts that turn into tangents that take right turns into 180s that go nowhere. A skilled professional editor would have done wonders for getting the message of this book out. To be fair, this is more or less my review of the book; not worth the price because of the shoddy editing. But I feel there is more to be said. Because this book came across as such an amateur project I decided to check out the author's blog, danceswithfat.com in attempt to contact her because I truly wanted to know more about her point of view and didn't want to unfairly judge her on what may have simply been a freshman attempt at publishing. What I noticed is that she only communicates with people who sycophantically support her position or people she feel's so far above that she is willing to address their concerns. In one response to a reader that had lost weight and had kept if, the author started her portion of the conversation with "I want you to know I do not see us as equals on this subject..." Her blog is little more than personal stories and when she does "cite" a study to back up her points, it is often just a link to another of her blog posts, leaving it to the reader to navigate dozens of pages to find what may or may not be proof of her point. After seeing this I wanted to know more about her her credentials. She repeats these statements over and over that she is a "trained researcher, national dance champion and elite athlete." Using these she feels qualified to dispute studies, doctors, statistics and lay people. Typing in her name in google the auto fills are "ragain chastain liar," "ragen chastain controversy" and "ragen chastain marathon." Some very quick research reveals the following: She studied at UT Austin for 7 years with no degree awarded. There is nothing to suggest that she is any more of a trained researcher than anyone else who is seeking a bachelors degree. As far as I can tell she has never made any attempt to further justify her claim of "trained researcher" Her claim of National Dance Champion comes from a small organization called the American Country Dance Association. Several of her "championships" came when she (and possibly her partner) were the only entrants. Her claim of elite athleticism is spread over accomplishments like finishing a marathon in 12:20 hours while being rude and demanding to course volunteers who were on the course over four hours longer than need be. She also claims to be able to amazing feats of strength (100 pushups, leg pressing 1000lbs) while never showing an video or picture proof. When asked to prove any of these claims (again by people she feels superior too) she states that doing so would trigger her eating disorder and is unwilling to provide proof. I wanted to understand her message, and after all this I don't want to dismiss Fat Acceptance out of hand. In book, blog and her public profile this author comes across as truth bending, mean person who feels she is above normal academic standards of proof. I actually found myself feeling bad for this person because as the internet bears down on her, the claims are going to come under more scrutiny leading to massive public embarrassment something like James Frey of "A Million Little Pieces" fame." Source for anyone whose interested. I can't wait to see this fat bitch fall off her bike and roll down a hill, but we all know she'll back out the day of. Edited to put quotations around the review since there was some confusion. I took that review from Amazon, I am not the original writer of that review. I'm not overweight or even close, and I didn't write the review.