Bad medicine : misconceptions and misuses revealed, from distance healing to vitamin O / Christopher Wanjek.

& Quot;Christopher Wanjek uses a take-no-prisoners approach in debunking the outrageous nonsense being heaped on a gullible public in the name of science and medicine. Wanjek writes with clarity, humor, and humanity, and simultaneously informs and entertains.".-Dr. Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic magazine; monthly columnist, . Scientific American; author of Why People Believe Weird Things. Prehistoric humans believed cedar ashes and incantations could cure a head injury. Ancient Egyptians believed the heart was the center of thought, the liver produced blood, and the brain cooled the b.