Dr. Joe Schwarcz

Unfortunately, that is not the case. There are more people today than ever who believe in nonsense and various aspects of pseudoscience. And I've kind of tried to forge a career battling those views.

Unfortunately, that is not the case. There are more people today than ever who believe in nonsense and various aspects of pseudoscience. And I've kind of tried to forge a career battling those views.

Unfortunately, that is not the case. There are more people today than ever who believe in nonsense and various aspects of pseudoscience. And I've kind of tried to forge a career battling those views.

Just because it has been around a long time doesn't mean that we have developed an immunity to it. Unfortunately, that is not the case. There are more people today than ever who believe in nonsense and various aspects of pseudoscience. And I've kind of tried to forge a career battling those views.

Just because it has been around a long time doesn't mean that we have developed an immunity to it. Unfortunately, that is not the case. There are more people today than ever who believe in nonsense and various aspects of pseudoscience. And I've kind of tried to forge a career battling those views.

Just because it has been around a long time doesn't mean that we have developed an immunity to it. Unfortunately, that is not the case. There are more people today than ever who believe in nonsense and various aspects of pseudoscience. And I've kind of tried to forge a career battling those views.

Sometimes it is frustrating, I must admit, but it also has been a lot of fun dealing with the various aspects of quackery.

Sometimes it is frustrating, I must admit, but it also has been a lot of fun dealing with the various aspects of quackery.

Sometimes it is frustrating, I must admit, but it also has been a lot of fun dealing with the various aspects of quackery.

Well, of course, there are some funny ones and there are some more serious ones. The more serious one that I've had to deal with a great deal is homeopathy, which I believe is perhaps the most absurd of all the so-called alternative remedies.

Well, of course, there are some funny ones and there are some more serious ones. The more serious one that I've had to deal with a great deal is homeopathy, which I believe is perhaps the most absurd of all the so-called alternative remedies.

Well, of course, there are some funny ones and there are some more serious ones. The more serious one that I've had to deal with a great deal is homeopathy, which I believe is perhaps the most absurd of all the so-called alternative remedies.

The vast majority of people have no real idea what homeopathy is, and if they have any kind of idea, they equate it to just sort of an umbrella of all kinds of, quote, natural therapies. This is not the case. Homeopathy is a very specific pseudoscientific practice that dates back about 200 years to a physician in Germany by the name of Samuel Hahnemann.

The vast majority of people have no real idea what homeopathy is, and if they have any kind of idea, they equate it to just sort of an umbrella of all kinds of, quote, natural therapies. This is not the case. Homeopathy is a very specific pseudoscientific practice that dates back about 200 years to a physician in Germany by the name of Samuel Hahnemann.

The vast majority of people have no real idea what homeopathy is, and if they have any kind of idea, they equate it to just sort of an umbrella of all kinds of, quote, natural therapies. This is not the case. Homeopathy is a very specific pseudoscientific practice that dates back about 200 years to a physician in Germany by the name of Samuel Hahnemann.

Now, Hahnemann actually was, I think, a pretty good guy who was disenchanted with what he had been taught in medical school back in those days because, you know, what did doctors learn back then? They learned how to purge patients. They learned how to bleed patients. And he didn't see his patients really getting better with this. So he searched for better methods of treatment.

Now, Hahnemann actually was, I think, a pretty good guy who was disenchanted with what he had been taught in medical school back in those days because, you know, what did doctors learn back then? They learned how to purge patients. They learned how to bleed patients. And he didn't see his patients really getting better with this. So he searched for better methods of treatment.

Now, Hahnemann actually was, I think, a pretty good guy who was disenchanted with what he had been taught in medical school back in those days because, you know, what did doctors learn back then? They learned how to purge patients. They learned how to bleed patients. And he didn't see his patients really getting better with this. So he searched for better methods of treatment.

And one treatment that was popular at the time, because it actually had a good chance of working, was to treat patients who suffered from malaria with an extract of the bark of the cinchona tree, which grew in Peru. Today, of course, we know that that bark contains quinine, but they had no idea of it back then.

And one treatment that was popular at the time, because it actually had a good chance of working, was to treat patients who suffered from malaria with an extract of the bark of the cinchona tree, which grew in Peru. Today, of course, we know that that bark contains quinine, but they had no idea of it back then.