The China Study

TL;DR;
Book is inaccurate and suffers from bias. While I do believe in authors sincere intentions to help, I also believe that due to bias he finds data that fit his initial hypothesis that animal protein is bad.
Keep thinking for yourself, critical thinking is the best tool you have. Remember that correlation is not causation and good science is hard.

Now the full version
I approached the book with an open mind, the more I keep listening the more I was evaluating my approach to eating meat. I kept listening about correlations between eating meat and cardio-vascular diseases, diabetes, cancer. Maybe I should shun all meat and turn vegan?

But all this revelations sounded a bit too good to be true, what the man was proposing was truly revolutionary and could save millions of people from sickness and untimely death, but yet there was no widespread turn to plant food only diets. Were we so biased by what is and what certain foods represent that we couldn't change. Has the debate become so politicised that we can't separate the lies from the truth and do what's best for us individually and as human species altogether? Maybe I was missing something?

Before going in and dissecting the data myself I did what anyone in this age would do, I searched.
I found a blogger Denise Minger and while I was VERY sceptical at first, it's a blog after all, but after reading through 1/4th of her 9000 word critique of the book I kept reading and then I read the rest of her entries about the book. Then I returned the book.
Don't get me wrong I still believe that eating veggies is good for you and even here in Poland we eat too much meat, I can believe Americans (who the author is referring in his book) eat even more.
But I also believe that author of the book made some significant errors in interpretation of the data and hence the conclusions represented in the book are wrong.

In the end I smiled, because the irony is really thick here, come to think of it. In the beginning of the book the author criticises the reductionists for trying to find miracle solutions using only one specific nutrient and then he does the same thing by blaming everything on animal protein.