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Hype: A Doctor's Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims, and Bad Advice - How to Tell What's Real and What's Not by Nina Shapiro, Kristin Loberg
2.0
The author was very patronizing in her tone.
She was very opinionated on certain subjects. If there was any scientific data that went against her opinion then it was the placebo effect (for example all Eastern Medicine which does have a lot of scientific studies supporting it). Yet all studies that supported her opinions weren’t placebos they were actual scientific results.
She also would have random stories about one person who died because they didn’t follow Western medical advice. One person’s story doesn’t prove a scientific point. If so I could tell her about my daughter’s esophagus closing down and medical doctors solution was for a 4 year old to swallow steroids the rest of her life. I removed dairy and she healed after 4 days from an issue she had her entire life. Based on her book she would tell me that was a placebo effect as nobody has sensitivities to food like that. It is either a typical allergy response or nothing.
She was very opinionated on certain subjects. If there was any scientific data that went against her opinion then it was the placebo effect (for example all Eastern Medicine which does have a lot of scientific studies supporting it). Yet all studies that supported her opinions weren’t placebos they were actual scientific results.
She also would have random stories about one person who died because they didn’t follow Western medical advice. One person’s story doesn’t prove a scientific point. If so I could tell her about my daughter’s esophagus closing down and medical doctors solution was for a 4 year old to swallow steroids the rest of her life. I removed dairy and she healed after 4 days from an issue she had her entire life. Based on her book she would tell me that was a placebo effect as nobody has sensitivities to food like that. It is either a typical allergy response or nothing.