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Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine

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Publisher
Harper
Published
2013
  • Corrupt practices
  • Alternative medicine
  • Complementary Therapies
  • Deception
  • Quackery

Medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly.