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02061aam a22003018i 4500 001 A5215ACC38A911ED914067003BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220920010102 008 220301s2022 onc 000 0 eng 020 $a 1770416587 020 $a 9781770416581 035 $a (OCoLC)1300781306 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c NLC $d NLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d BUP $d SILO 100 1 $a Schwarcz, Joe, $e author. 245 10 $a Quack quack : $b the threat of pseudoscience / $c Dr. Joe Schwarcz. 263 $a 202209 264 1 $a Toronto : $b ECW Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 242 pages $c 21 cm 520 $a " 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. In Quack Quack, 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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 650 0 $a Quacks and quackery. 650 0 $a Pseudoscience. 650 0 $a Common fallacies. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Schwarcz, Joe. $t Quack quack. $d Toronto : ECW Press, 2022 $z 9781778520235 $z 9781778520235 $w (OCoLC)1300781465 941 $a 1 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20220920011600.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A5215ACC38A911ED914067003BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search