Empirics, Quacks, and Alternative Medical Practices
Overview
During the Middle Ages and through the Renaissance, physicians who were educated and trained in the scientific method—with a relianc...
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Quackery
The term "quackery" refers to the promotion of a medical remedy that is false or unproven in order to earn a profit. The word derives from the term quacksalver, literally someone who boasts o...
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"Charlatan" (Crown Publishing Group, 336 pages, $24.95), by Pope Brock: Goat testicles to restore virility. An electric hat that grows hair. Healing blue light from a "quartz ray" bulb.If you can't...
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Dr. Pramod Karan Sethi, inventor of a low-cost prosthetic foot that has helped millions of people in developing and war-torn countries, has died. He was 80.Sethi died Sunday of a cardiac arrest in ...
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Jeffrey Gabbay hasn't washed his sports socks since 2004. He says he doesn't have to. Gabbay's company, Cupron Inc., says it is the first textile manufacturer to produce fibers "impregnated" with c...
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The fountain of youth apparently does not yet come in a pill. Widely used DHEA supplements and testosterone patches failed to deliver their touted anti-aging benefits in one of the first rigor...
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Visitors to Winterthur sometimes experience a "Wow!" moment when touring the museum's permanent and traveling collections, but the newest exhibit offers a bit of a twist."Bow-wow!" might be the mor...
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Visitors to Winterthur sometimes experience a "Wow!" moment when touring the museum's permanent and traveling collections, but the newest exhibit offers a bit of a twist."Bow-wow!" might be the mor...
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Jeffrey George had no background in health care when he founded his business to sell human growth hormone on the Internet.But even though most uses of the drug are illegal, he is absolutely certain...
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Jeffrey George had no background in health care when he founded his business to sell human growth hormone on the Internet.But even though most uses of the drug are illegal, he is absolutely certain...
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I want to talk about something barbaric and something beautiful and heroic. Also about a buried Freudian scandal involving Bruno Bettelheim and refrigerators. Let me explain.
It was prompted by th...
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I want to talk about something barbaric and something beautiful and heroic. Also about a buried Freudian scandal involving Bruno Bettelheim and refrigerators. Let me explain.
It was prompted by t...
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Empirics, Quacks, and Alternative Medical Practices
Quackery
A quack is born: 'Charlatan' profiles goat gland huckster and medical scams through history
