num_pages: 336
description: From leading medical expert Paul A. Offit M.D. a scathing expos of the alternative medicine industry revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response many of them are ineffective expensive and even deadlyIn Do You Believe in Magic? Paul Offit M.D. reveals how alternative medicinean unregulated industry under no legal obligation to prove its claims or admit its riskscan actually be harmful to our health.Using dramatic real-life stories Offit separates the sense from the nonsense showing why any therapyalternative or traditionalshould be scrutinized. He also shows how some nontraditional methods can do a great deal of good in some cases exceeding therapies offered by conventional practitioners.An outspoken advocate for science-based health advocacy who is not afraid to take on media celebrities who promote alternative practices Dr. Offit advises Theres no such thing as alternative medicine. Theres only medicine that works and medicine that doesnt.
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title: Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
publisher: Harper