Heyer is a journalist from Germany. You can yell at him at yell.at.heyer@gmail.com. If you know a palindrome that includes his name, he'd be happy to look at it.
If you take a moment to stop actively focusing on the negative, it's easy to see that, despite our collective insistence to the contrary, the world as a whole is chugging along towards a better place.
There are babies out there who have survived dangerous situations that would have likely killed a grown man, sometimes because their smallness actually protected them, and sometimes because we're pretty sure they're just indestructible.
We're not saying these people are all liars or that their books should be tossed in the garbage. It's just interesting to see how the human mind works.