{"product_id":"quack-quack-the-threat-of-pseudoscience","title":"Quack Quack: The Threat of Pseudoscience","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cspan\u003eLet the one and only Dr. Joe battle pseudoscience and cast a life preserver out to all those drowning in a sea of misinformation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Ultimately, the author successfully demonstrates how claims should be queried and analyzed before they are accepted.” — \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWe are in a crisis. A tsunami of misinformation and disinformation is threatening to engulf evidence-based science. While quackery — loosely defined as the spread of false “knowledge,” often accompanied by various versions of “snake oil” — is not a novel phenomenon, it has never posed as great a threat to public health as today. COVID-19 has unleashed an unprecedented flurry of destructive information that has fueled vaccine hesitancy and has steered people toward unproven therapies. Conspiracy theorists have served up a distasteful menu of twisted facts that create distrust in science. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQuack Quack\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Dr. Joe Schwarcz, who has been battling flimflam for decades, focuses on the deluge of anecdotes, cherry-picked data, pseudoscientific nonsense, and seductive baseless health claims that undermine efforts to educate the public about evidence-based science. The wide scope of the topics drawn from past and present aims to cast a life preserver to people drowning in a sea of misinformation.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45914696515775,"sku":"4250a284-30d5-4f4c-8924-800f131e13a4","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/55ff7dcd18ac5a4d89c2db57dc5c62da.jpg?v=1785060844","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/quack-quack-the-threat-of-pseudoscience","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}