{"product_id":"quack-quack-the-threat-of-pseudoscience","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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46058584670399,"sku":"9781770416581","price":34.65,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/files\/84241-c25c64591d4f374b5d450c50b45160c0240765ae06ae9d4dee70ef0e71756335.jpg?v=1787220028","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/quack-quack-the-threat-of-pseudoscience","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}