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Dewey Decimal Number: 615.8560973
EAN num: 9780879758554
ISBN number: 0879758554
Label: Prometheus Books
Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
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Page Count: 526
Printing Date: 1993-10
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The 'Health Robbers', featuring over twenty highly respected authorities, explains the dangers of quack medicine, 'alternative' cancer remedies, health fads, and 'miracle diets.' It argues for stronger laws and more vigorous policing of the marketplace. The essays answer such questions as: Are 'organic' foods worth their extra cost? Can acupuncture cure anything? Can diet cure arthritis? Will spinal adjustments help my health? Will amino acids 'pump up' my muscles? The answers to some of these questions should seem obvious, but the details in this volume, written in an informative, highly readable and easy-to-understand style, will astound you. Quackery is often harmful because it turns ill people away from legitimate and trusted therapeutic procedures. However, its heaviest toll is the financial loss, not only of those who pay directly, but to everyone who pays for bogus treatments through taxes, insurance premiums, and other ways that are less obvious.
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Look, you don't have to be a medical export, or a scientist, to understand what science is. Science is nothing more than the study of nature!
Scientific method: Experiment. Observe. Eliminate as many variables that may affect the results as possible. Study ALL results, expected and non-expected. Share ALL results with peers, who challenge your results by conducting independent experiments and observations to verify. Hypothesize based on the FULL body of verified results. Repeat.
Scientific method has yielded an astounding bounty of discoveries in the short amount of time since it has started to be widely practiced.
True modern medicine is just applying scientific method to the act of healing people. This method has enabled human life to overcome and endure many diseases on a scale unimagined just 175 years ago, when medicine was largely a hunch-based-on-anecdotes practice.
Are there bad practices and practitioners in modern medicine? Of course there are, as there are in any human endeavor, especially when so much money is at stake. But science and the foundations of modern medicine are not to blame for this. Modern medicine is there to serve you -- you just need to steer clear of bad practice and practitioners as best you can.
Turning to those who have abandoned science, never embraced it in the very first place, and/or found they could make a lucrative living by taking a stand against it, is an enourmous gamble. Pointless at best, it is possibly harmful to your health, especially if you have a genuine health concern that is not self-healing and that requires truly effective therapies to provide a better outcome.
People can fool us into feeling things or believing things that have been repeatedly scientifically debunked. Sadly, nobody is better at fooling us then ourselves. That is the nature of self-awareness; we are no longer unbiased observers, especially when it comes to our own selves, which is why pseudo-science thrives in the alternative "health and well-being" industry. But, to paraphrase Richard Feynman, "nature cannot be fooled".
Read this book for a very educational look into the nature of the deceptions that accompany most alternative therapies. You may not believe it now, but this knowledge WILL bring you closer to nature, which is, by the way, just another word for reality.
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According to web sources, Mr. Barrett has long given up his medical license, and was never even a certified psychiatrist. It seems that he has given expert advice, in court, under false pretenses. I was rather appalled to find out about this.
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What a farce this book is. Barrett is unqualified to write about altnerative medicine. He has never practiced medicine, only psychiatry. The work is poorly researched and seems to only support his personal oppinions. Many may not know that he is supported by the pharmaceutical industry and therefore lacks the objectivity that an author of this subject needs to have. The findings Barrett writes in this book are really fictionalized.
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Barrett just demolishes the quacks here with competent science--chiropractic, homeopathic, naturopathic--all treatments without a shred of scientific evidence to back them up.
Look at some of the negative reviews on the page, obviously written by practitioners in these fradulent fields threatened by Barrett's exposure of their scams! They are hilarious!Barrett is a well-respected M.D. who has been a quack watch dog for a long time now, and anyone with any common sense should read this book.
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This book is well written, but is severely biased towards conventional American medical practises. The author has no understanding or experience with the different types of medicine he describes, and has very little understanding of the healing process and how to work with it. Read it but be very cautious of his bias.
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