Besides making the public curious, the review also gave Fieri a very public platform, and his anti-Wells counterattack has been well documented by virtually every food site and news outlet, most notably the high profile Today Show, which gave him not one but two significant swaths of airtime in which to defend himself.

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He has also brought clarity and insight to a number of other curious brain diseases, including the very rare syndrome where a patient believes his or her mother to be an imposter.

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