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		giardini on June 9, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don’t Take Your Vitamins If you're a scientist and objective observer you publish papers on a topic. You write a book to make money on that topic.

danielharan on June 9, 2013 [–]

Writing a book is generally a terrible way to make money, especially given the salary he must be making now.

Another motivation besides greed could be wanting to warn people and potentially save many lives.

giardini on June 14, 2013 | [–]

Luckily for the publishing business, most would-be authors do not realize that.

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