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Drew Curtis

Media critic Jack Shafer noted that despite the book's success, it (un)surprisingly received "scant attention" from mainstream media outlets.

Sack tapping

Jack Shafer, writing in Slate magazine in 2010, commented that despite the media describing sack tapping as "the latest dangerous craze", the practice was not new and had existed for some time, and the recent focus was simply "sensationalist journalism".

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