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001560894 1001_ $$aSchwarcz, Joe.
001560894 24510 $$aQuack Quack :$$bThe Threat of Pseudoscience.
001560894 250__ $$a1st ed.
001560894 264_1 $$aToronto :$$bECW Press,$$c2022.
001560894 264_4 $$c©2022.
001560894 300__ $$a1 online resource (257 pages).
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001560894 5050_ $$aFront 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.
001560894 5058_ $$aPutting Pimat's Health Claims to bed -- Chemical-Free Is Not a Good Deal -- Jamie Oliver Cooks Up Some Nonsense -- A Treatment for Chemophobia -- Raw Water -- "The People's Chemist" -- Alternative Medicine -- Some Views on Dealing with Information and Misinformation -- Index -- Back Cover.
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001560894 520__ $$aA fun, fast-paced, and evidence-informed exploration of outrageous claims, "alternative" therapies, and "miracle cures" such as juice cleanses, detoxes, ear candling, raw water, and more. In a world filled with misinformation and twisted science, this is a must-read.
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