Here's a great review from Times Online on the book
Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All by Rose Shapiro. CAMsters (my favorite new word) are often found resorting to the Big Pharma Conspiracy to sell their potions, something Shapiro addresses.
In short, Shapiro does much, in sprightly prose, to convince the reader that CAM is a sham. She points out that many CAMsters (my phrase) deride Western medicine as driven by greed, profit and Big Pharma — while their own tills ring loudly from the sale of ineffective pills to the gullible.
The U.K. seems to have a real problem with wasting money on alternative medicine, probably due to their irrational royals who make the whole nonsense something of a fad. They need for CAM what
Dawkins is to religion before their woo advances to the next level (which would put them on par with India!).
2 comments:
Suckers is an easy read and very well researched. I must admit that I rarely read "popular science" books, since I find them brushing over details and ultimately getting facts wrong. This book however, has the facts and backgrounds of a whole host of "alternative" "treatments" down to a T, teaches you how to recognise a quack by the language they use and will ultimately save you money, because you will not fall for their promises. I finished the book on Monday and have already recommended it to two colleagues.
Suckers? Easy to read? Well researched? I was one of Ms. Shapiro's victims in this book. She never contacted in any form,, or any of those who are on my clinical and scientific teams. She never referenced our peer-reviewed research....
Everything she wrote about me was pure and absolute fiction.....but really more like defamation.....
and the review by "viagra online"....are fucking retarded?
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