[doitLP]

Slightly off topic but I always understood these types of books (scientific, biographical, medical) go through extensive fact checking before legit publishers will publish them. Is that not the case? Or did the author just serve as his own fact checker for that book?

[jholman]

I would be very curious to hear of cases where any fact checking at all was done by legit publishers.

Everything I've ever heard about the publishing industry contradicts what you have supposed. But I don't have any real evidence!