Book: A brief History of the worst ways to cure everything

[Snowdrop]

here https://undark.org/article/five-questions-lydia-kang/ is a link to an article in undark about the book in the thread title.

I thought it might be of interest to someone here and maybe there might be someone here who might want to read the book.

 

[JemPD]

The book absolutely is a reminder that though we may laugh at the past and think we’re so high-and-mightily forward-thinking about what works and doesn’t, we actually haven’t come very far when it comes to quackery. That was a huge revelation to me — the idea that every one of us is very susceptible, no matter what our background or level of education. Sometimes I think that the most powerful thing in the human landscape is bias and how it can have amazing effects that can also be quite terrible.

Looks good, I am in too much of a state at the moment to read it though. Also i bet she'd be interested to hear about CBT/GET for ME (unless of course she's already been 'got at' by the BPSers like Ben Goldacre) perhaps someone might have the energy to read the book & then send her a link to Dave Tuller's work.

 

[Rick Sanchez]

Thanks for this!

I have always enjoyed medicinal history, it's incredibly exciting. Sadly I hardly ever read anymore because of the strain reading has on me, but will definitely remember this. Maybe a good idea for a birthday / Christmas present as well !