jobrody

I'll most likely read your book to get a fuller picture, but the tone you've adopted here is needlessly provocative. You are being a smart ass, and starting this AMA by calling Snowden sympathizers "Snowdenistas" makes it seem like you have an axe to grind. Really not the kind of approach is have expected from the Economist.

I just finished reading "The Emperor of All Maladies" and was struck by how the book focuses nearly exclusively on work done over the past 100 years by researchers in the United States (with the notable exception of a significant fraud by a researcher in South Africa). Is this just a provincial bias on the part of the author, or have researchers in Europe and Japan really failed to keep up? Why?