Do you believe in magic?: the sense and nonsense of alternative medicine

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Medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé 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 deadly.

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Alternative medicine
Alternative medicine -- Corrupt practices
Audiobooks
Corrupt practices
Deception
Electronic books
Healing
Medical policy
Medicine
Physical fitness
Public health
Quacks and quackery
Therapeutics
Therapeutics, Physiological

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Healing
Medical policy
Medicine
Physical fitness
Public health
Quacks and quackery
Therapeutics
Therapeutics, Physiological
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Corrupt practices
Deception
Electronic books
Healing
Medical policy
Medicine
Physical fitness
Public health
Quacks and quackery
Therapeutics
Therapeutics, Physiological

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