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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: The Roots of Bad Medicine | |
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| I Sing the Body Eclectic | |
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| 10 Percent Misconception, 90 Percent Misdirection: The Brain at Work | |
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| Big Brain, Little Smarts: Brain Size and Intelligence | |
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| Blinded by Lies: The Eyes Have It | |
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| All in Good Taste: How the Tongue Works | |
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| Scrubbing Your Liver: The Demystification of Detoxification | |
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| Refer to the Appendix: Useless Organ or Helpful Player? | |
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| Going Gray? Not Today: White Hair and Its Causes | |
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| Samson's Delight: Baldness Cures | |
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| The Race Is Off: Race Defined | |
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| Growing Old | |
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| Losing One's Mind: Memory Loss and Aging | |
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| Getting Stiffed: Vitality and Aging | |
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| Illness Gets Old: Aging and Disease | |
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| See You in 2150: The Long and Short of Life Span | |
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| On and On: Longevity and Genetics | |
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| Enough to Make You Sick | |
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| The Plague Lives! The Black Plague in the Modern Age | |
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| Cold Comfort: How to Catch a Cold | |
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| The Ill-Advised War on Bacteria: Are All Bacteria Bad? | |
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| Radiating Misperception: Radiation, Pro and Con | |
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| Swimming with Sharks: Sharks and Cancer | |
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| Mutating Misconceptions: What Your Genes Say about Your Future Health | |
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| Eating It Up | |
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| Learning Your Alpha-Beta-Carotenes: Antioxidants, Pro and Con | |
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| The Unbearable Heaviness of Being: Fat People and Food | |
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| Not Milk? Milk and Your Health | |
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| Organic Reasoning: The Benefits of Organic Food | |
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| Water, Water Everywhere: Bottled Water vs. Tap Water | |
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| The Return of the Witch Doctor | |
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| The Delusion of Dilution: Homeopathy x 50 | |
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| Magnetic Charm: Magnets and Your Health | |
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| Reversal of Fortune: The Viability of Ayurveda | |
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| Something Smells Funny: Aromatherapy as a Cure | |
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| Suffocating Trends: Oxygen--How Much Is Too Much? | |
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| The Ultimate Hands-Off Approach: Touch Therapy, Qigong, and Falun Gong | |
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| Getting to the Root of the Problem: Herbs As Alternative Medicine | |
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| A Short in the Arm: The True Dangers of Vaccines | |
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| Risking It All | |
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| Toxic Avenger: The Science of Toxicity | |
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| Peer-Reviewed for Your Pleasure: How Health Studies Work | |
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| Candy Adds Years to Your Life: And Other Important Health Study Findings | |
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| We're #1: Rating America's Health | |
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| Just Like in the Movies | |
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| I'm Not a Reporter, but I Play One on TV: The Accuracy of Television Medical News | |
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| Rambo VI: The Quest for Hearing: Guns and Their Aftereffects | |
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| Knocked Out, Loaded: Imagined Violence and Real Problems | |
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| Heartbreaker: Hollywood Style | |
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| Epilogue: Tomorrow's Promise: Bad Medicine on the Horizon | |
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| More Bad Medicine | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |