Quack Quack : The Threat of Pseudoscience

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910886178403321
• Autore: Schwarcz Joe
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto : , : ECW Press, , 2022; ©2022
• ISBN: 9781778520235; 9781770416581
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 pages)
• Disciplina: 615.8/56
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Back Cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: A 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.