Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O by Wanjek, Christopher
Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O by Wanjek, Christopher

Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O

"Christopher Wanjek uses a take-no-prisoners approach in debunkingthe outrageous nonsense being heaped on a gullible public in...
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Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O by Wanjek, Christopher

Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O

$254.67
Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O by Wanjek, Christopher

Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O

$254.67
Author: Christopher Wanjek
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"Christopher Wanjek uses a take-no-prisoners approach in debunkingthe outrageous nonsense being heaped on a gullible public in thename of science and medicine. Wanjek writes with clarity, humor, and humanity, and simultaneously informs and entertains."
-Dr. Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic magazine; monthlycolumnist,
Scientific American; author of Why People Believe WeirdThings

Prehistoric humans believed cedar ashes and incantations could curea head injury. Ancient Egyptians believed the heart was the centerof thought, the liver produced blood, and the brain cooled thebody. The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was a big fan ofbloodletting. Today, we are still plagued by countless medicalmyths and misconceptions. Bad Medicine sets the record straight bydebunking widely held yet incorrect notions of how the body works, from cold cures to vaccination fears.

Clear, accessible, and highly entertaining, Bad Medicine dispelssuch medical convictions as:
* You only use 10% of your brain: CAT, PET, and MRI scans all provethat there are no inactive regions of the brain . . . not evenduring sleep.
* Sitting too close to the TV causes nearsightedness: Your motherwas wrong. Most likely, an already nearsighted child sits close tosee better.
* Eating junk food will make your face break out: Acne is caused bydead skin cells, hormones, and bacteria, not from a pizza witheverything on it.
* If you don't dress warmly, you'll catch a cold: Cold viruses arethe true and only cause of colds.

Protect yourself and the ones you love from bad medicine-the brainyou save may be your own.

Author: Christopher Wanjek
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 10/03/2002
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.16h x 5.97w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780471434993


Review Citation(s):
USA Today 12/02/2002 pg. 1
USA Today 12/06/2002 pg. 1

About the Author
CHRISTOPHER WANJEK is a frequent contributor to the Washington Post; he has also written for Smithsonian and Forbes, among other publications. He writes jokes for The Tonight Show and Saturday Night Live. Wanjek is also a senior writer for NASA. He has previously worked as an in-house science writer at MIT and the NIH.
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