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If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
I've witnessed some fringe medicine actually work and I know that there are some practitioners out there that are actually doing good and care about those they're helping, but the side of fringe medicine talked about in this book terrifies me. It's all the people who have convinced thousands to eschew real medicine and science in favor of miracle cures and unproven (most times deadly) snake oil tonics with no proof of working other than one person's ability to charm people into believing them or use pseudo-intelligent talk to make them think they're talking sense. The most interesting thing is though, that at least how they're presented here, most of them started out with noble intentions and just fell deeper and deeper into it and lost sight of the horrors they're perpetuating.
There is no doubt whatsoever where Hongoltz-Hetling stands and what he thinks of the 'so-called one cure', but you can also tell that he did his best to show both sides of the story and try to stick to the facts, such as they are. I'm pretty sure there's going to be a segment of readers who get mad about how he writes about certain individuals and his very frank opinions on situations, then again, I'm pretty sure those people won't be at all interested in reading fact-checked evidence of how crazy they sound.
Very happy thanks to NetGalley and PublicAffairs for the eye-opening read!
There is no doubt whatsoever where Hongoltz-Hetling stands and what he thinks of the 'so-called one cure', but you can also tell that he did his best to show both sides of the story and try to stick to the facts, such as they are. I'm pretty sure there's going to be a segment of readers who get mad about how he writes about certain individuals and his very frank opinions on situations, then again, I'm pretty sure those people won't be at all interested in reading fact-checked evidence of how crazy they sound.
Very happy thanks to NetGalley and PublicAffairs for the eye-opening read!