Unfortunately it seems van der Kolk took the famous Mark Twain quote “never let the truth get in the way of a good story” to heart.

All this suggests that certain people may have certain physiology or hormonal profiles that make them susceptible to trauma.

What this would suggest is that van der Kolk could be getting everything backwards.

That is, trauma doesn’t lead to dysfunction or abnormal brain function, physiology or hormonal regulation. Rather, an unhealthy person may be more susceptible to trauma.

I guess building an actual browser, from scratch, is still a task so monumentally difficult that even a company that is aiming for super-intelligence can’t tackle it.

Dr. Michael Scheeringa [...] expected that after The Body Keeps the Score hit the bestseller list following its publication in 2014, it would quickly lose all credibility and be banished to the bargain bin due to its many blatant scientific errors and grandiose narrative.

Instead, it maintained a streak of being the #1 ranked book in Psychiatry on Amazon.com for years. Just last week, the week of June 29th 2025, The Body Keeps the Score is ranked #5 for most sold for all nonfiction books on Amazon’s official weekly ranking. It’s maintained an unbroken streak on the top 20 most sold nonfiction list for the past 233 weeks - over 4 years and 5 months.