This episode focuses on alternative cures that you don't have to go to a real doctor for. They include reflexology, magnotherapy and chiropractic medicine. P&T show how easy it is to fool people with alternative cures by sending their very own Bullshit! doctor to a mall with a bunch of fake cures.
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Links:
Official Showtime Page
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Chirobase - Your Skeptical Guide to Chiropractic History
Quackwatch - Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent Decisions
Guests:
Robert Park - Author of Voodoo Science, Executive Director of the American Physical Society
Stephen Barrett - Retired psychiatrist, Author, Consumer advocate
Charles E. DuVall, Jr - Chiropractic physician
Zachary Brinkeroff - Reflexologist
William H. Philpott - Magnet therapist, Chairman of the BioMagnetics Institute
Jeffrey Ptak - Chiropractic physician
Quotes:
"A lot of real scientists make you say hallelujah." - Penn Jillette
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NTSC DVD
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