{"product_id":"quack-quack-the-threat-of-pseudoscience-9781770416581","title":"Quack Quack: The Threat of Pseudoscience","description":"\u003cb\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\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Ultimately, the author successfully demonstrates how claims should be queried and analyzed before they are accepted.\" -- \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eQuack Quack\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eDr. Joe Schwarcz\u003c\/b\u003e is the director of McGill University's Office for Science and Society, which has the mission of separating sense from nonsense. He hosts a radio show, appears on television, writes a regular newspaper column, and has authored 18 bestsellers. Dr. Joe is also an amateur magician and lives in Montreal, QC.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50521252921618,"sku":"9781770416581","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_805588c5-0e88-4eea-865f-2aa70e5d8c39.jpg?v=1731100655","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/quack-quack-the-threat-of-pseudoscience-9781770416581","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}