> According to a devastating new investigation by Rachel Aviv in The New Yorker

it looks like this is the primary source:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/oliver-sacks-p...

Another book I was recently sad to learn was at fabricated is The Salt Path, which was great but apparently based on lies, the author was fleeing debt and lawsuits and stole $86,000 from their previous employer prior the walk. What is super sad is they didn't pay the people back they stole money from after their book became a best seller:

https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-real-salt-p...

It's also became a movie staring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs.