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Quack Quack: The Threat of Pseudoscience

Quack Quack: The Threat of Pseudoscience

Schwarcz, Joe

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ISBN10: 1770416587
ISBN13: 9781770416581
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: Sep 27 2022
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Let the one and only Dr. Joe battle pseudoscience and cast a life preserver out to all those drowning in a sea of misinformation

Ultimately, the author successfully demonstrates how claims should be queried and analyzed before they are accepted. -- Library Journal

We are in a crisis. A tsunami of misinformation and disinformation is threatening to engulf evidence-based science. While quackery -- loosely defined as the spread of false knowledge, often accompanied by various versions of snake oil -- is not a novel phenomenon, it has never posed as great a threat to public health as today. COVID-19 has unleashed an unprecedented flurry of destructive information that has fueled vaccine hesitancy and has steered people toward unproven therapies. Conspiracy theorists have served up a distasteful menu of twisted facts that create distrust in science.

In Quack Quack, Dr. Joe Schwarcz, who has been battling flimflam for decades, focuses on the deluge of anecdotes, cherry-picked data, pseudoscientific nonsense, and seductive baseless health claims that undermine efforts to educate the public about evidence-based science. The wide scope of the topics drawn from past and present aims to cast a life preserver to people drowning in a sea of misinformation.

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