For every ailment under the sun, there's a cure -- or at least, someone selling something and claiming it as a cure. Shutterstock In the 1950s, Oklahoma pastor Charlie Shedd’s book convinced readers ...

A dentist turned medicinal laser enthusiast, a natural-supplement alchemist, a Mormon “health retreat” founder, a Polish leech aficionado, devout prayer healers, and a man convinced that he is part ...

Before he became Britain's monarch, King Charles III faced criticism over the years for promoting alternative medical therapies and treatments. In 2019 for example, he received pushback for becoming a ...

In this blistering survey, journalist Hongoltz-Hetling (A Libertarian Walks into a Bear) explores the “world of science-lite health care, its origins, and how, between 2000 and 2020, it changed the ...

Do you remember when the president of the United States went on national TV and suggested that bleach injections might be a viable safeguard against COVID-19? Vershire journalist Matthew ...

In case anyone ever questioned the American Medical Association’s power to quell a quack completely, the Association’s Journal last week detailed its handling of Norman Baker. He flourished at ...

Quack physicians last used leeches more than a century ago, but few come across Dr. Edward Sprague's leech jar without wondering if the dermatologist still relies on blood suckers to treat patients. A ...

Lastly — like the quack-medicine — the quack-novel is (mostly) harmful; not always because it is poisonous (though this occurs), but because it pretends to be literature and is taken for literature by ...

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