A review by bookwormmichelle
Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine by Paul A. Offit

4.0

Very well done! I so enjoyed Offit's book on vaccines, and now was glad to see the take on alternative medicine. There are a lot of charlatans out there. He pretty much decimated the nutritional-supplement industry; I kept waiting to see if he'd choose to tackle other nutrition issues, but he didn't really. Alternative cancer treatments, check, megavitamin doses, check. He didn't really go after chiropractic or homeopathy as much as he could have. I mean, homeopathy is an entire system just BEGGING for someone to turn a rational eye on it. (The water remembers? Really? And just how do you have to knock that tube to make it remember????) Yeah. But very interesting, a quite entertaining read.