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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 610.289 EAN: 9780741429094 ISBN: 0741429098 Label: Infinity Publishing Manufacturer: Infinity Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 326 Publication Date: January 30, 2006 Publisher: Infinity Publishing Studio: Infinity Publishing Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A fearless exposé of mainstream medicines most revered dogma, Malignant Medical Myths is solidly based on trusted medical and nutritional books and journals. Americans spend $2 trillion per year on health care, about $7,000 each, yet it buys almost the poorest healthcare among developed countries, with 200,000 deaths per year from medical treatment. Find out why advice from authorities on screening tests, drugs, diet, exercise, alcohol, radiation, radon, and water fluoridation is often wrong and commercially motivated. See how clinical trials are slanted. Understand how sickness is created to sell treatments, and which government agencies support these shenanigans. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Convincing expose of common medical mythsConvincing revelation of the nature and causes of common medical myths that are costing the country Billions of dollars and hurting rather than aiding our health. Rating: - malignant medical mythsThis was exactly what I was looking for, INFORMATION and while it isn't a book for the beach, I will read and refer to it for many days,months and years. Would not part with this book. Rating: - Buy One for your PhysicianOne of the most remarkable examples of herd behavior among humans is their tendency to create and believe lore about medicine. Although biomedical researchers consider themselves above all this, as Kauffman shows, they are not. Without engaging in either inflated rhetoric or florid outrage, Kauffman exposes and dissects conventional wisdom in a careful selection of conditions that affect large numbers of people. Despite the occasional misstep, he puts the evidence and argument out on the table for ... Read More Rating: - Evidence based medicine at it's best!If you care about your health, or that of those around you, this is a must read book. This certainly isn't a book you can simply skim read. It took me a while to ponder about the impact this might have (I'm a medical student). The arguments are very well presented; he puts all the studies in front of you and analyzes them in a relevant manner. What I consider to be a minor flaw in the book: the author sometimes concludes that certain differences in mortality are "negligible" ... Read More Rating: - Highly RecommendedYou need this book. It is easy to become so engrossed in Kauffman's easy writing style that you will continue reading and lose track of time. Thumb through and stop at any place and you are guaranteed to find a wealth of information. Detractors to the best toxic-free remedies are provided rebuttals--you can learn a comprehensive approach to what and why. Let's make this required reading in medical schools! The only error I found was a typo misspelling of Antiplatelet in the Fig. 1-2 Treatment Meta ... Read More 
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