Quack Quack
The Threat of Pseudoscience
ISBN-13: 9781778520242
Author(s): Joe Schwarcz
Subjects: PD
Publisher: Ecw Press
Publisher Imprint: Ecw Press Digital
Publication Date: 27-09-2022
Format: Ebook
Availability: In stock
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About the book
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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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