From the Book - First edition.
Taking a look at alternative medicine
Distrust of modern medicine. Rediscovering the past : Mehmet Oz and his superstars
The lure of all things natural. The vitamin craze : Linus Pauling's ironic legacy
Little supplement makers versus Big Pharma. The supplement industry gets a free pass : neutering the FDA ; Fifty-one thousand new supplements : which ones work?
When the stars shine on alternative medicine. Menopause and aging : Suzanne Somers weighs in ; Autism's Pied Piper : Jenny McCarthy's crusade ; Chronic Lyme Disease : the Blumenthal Affair
The hope business. Curing cancer : Steve Jobs, shark cartilage, coffee enemas, and more ; Sick children, desperate parents : Stanislaw Burzynski's urine cure
Charismatic healers are hard to resist. Magic potions in the twenty-first century : Rashid Buttar and the lure of personality
Why some alternative therapies really do work. The remarkably powerful, highly underrated placebo response ; When alternative medicine becomes quackery
Albert Schweitzer and the witch doctor : a parable.
