Front Cover
Praise for Science Goes Viral
Also by Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Quack Quack
Pseudoscience
Snake Oil
Spirits of Salt
Medicine Shows
Modernizing Mountebanks
Poking into the Puke Weed Doctor
The Chew-Chew and Do-Do Man
Insert Yogurt Where?
Dinshah and the Spectro-Chrome
Electroquackery
The Prince of Humbug
McFadden and Physical Culture
Getting Steinached
The Dean of Quacks
Cold Showers and Warm Baths
A Rabbit out of a Hat
Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy
Perkins Tractors
Iridology and Craniosacral therapy
Alkaline Nonsense
Spoon-Bending Fiasco
Quack Products
Believing the Unbelievable
Encountering a "Healer"
Forceful Sole Searching
Ear Candles
Alpha Spin Can Make Your Head Spin
Email Warnings
Health Food Store Follies
Jilly Juice
Cancer and Carny Tricks
Trepanation
Borba's Nonsense
The Gerson Folly
Miracle Mineral Solution Is a Nightmare
Brace Yourself
No Magic in Quack Cancer Treatments
The Detox Scam
Yikes! I'm Infested!
Graviola Poppycock
The Healing Code
Getting Down to Earth
Cure Your Arthritis . . . Really?
The Saga of Uri Geller
I'll Pass on Autourine Therapy
Moonbeams
Natural Fallacies
The Curious "Science" of Oscillococcinum
Popeye's Folly
Breatharians and Nutritarians
Bitterness about Sugar
A Look at Braco the Gazer




Celebrities and Cerebral Claptrap
The Myth of "Detox"
Double Helix Water
Dunning-Kruger
Medical Medium
Fitting Square Pegs into Round Holes
Bee Pollen and the Office of Alternative Medicine
Spoonk
Sylvia Browne
The Water Revitalizer
Where's the Aura, Asks Young Emily Rosa
Infomercials Provide Slanted Science
Diagnosing Pathological Science.

Putting Pimat's Health Claims to bed
Chemical-Free Is Not a Good Deal
Jamie Oliver Cooks Up Some Nonsense
A Treatment for Chemophobia
Raw Water
"The People's Chemist"
Alternative Medicine
Some Views on Dealing with Information and Misinformation
Index
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