Oliver Sacks was a fraud
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merry christmas — 3 months ago(December 12, 2025 01:36 PM)
Not a surprising revelation really. He wrote the book Awakenings, which became a Robert De Niro/Robin Williams movie.
https://archive.ph/d0ywJ
De Niro portrayed Leonard. -
元才 — 3 months ago(December 12, 2025 01:52 PM)
Leonard Shengold apparently wrote his autobiography (Which is actually an unpublished personal manuscript) after Oliver Sacks' Awakenings was published in 1973.
Going solely on that there is no evidence to suggest that Sacks was aware of these sexual exploits detailed in those writings, or if they were true and not just the imaginings of someone.
But you managed to miss out the entire Jeno Vincze thing, so there's that…