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"Step right up, folks. This miracle in a bottle will cure everything from dandruff to cancer."""" In the nineteenth century you might have heard this pitch on a street corner from characters we called snake oil salesmen. Today quack remedies are sold by celebrities on electronic media. Suzanne Somers, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kim Kardashian, and a host of other “bold face names” promote questionable products and health advice via TV appearances, apps, and web sites. The modern market for useless health products—snake oil—thrives in a swamp of advertising hype and pseudoscience. We swallow what marketers sell even when the claims are preposterous. Who actually knows what works? What’s the difference between science-based medicine and everything else? Which health news is “fake” and who should you trust? The answers are in these pages."

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Anderson focuses on well-advertised health and cosmetic products that don't deliver on their promises. ... She also challenges the theories of such celebrities as Suzanne Somers (on dieting), Jenny McCarthy (who claimed vaccines cause autism), and even Dr. Mehmet Oz, a TV doctor and cardiac surgeon. --

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Ann Anderson is a freelance writer, teacher, actor and director. Her articles and essays have appeared in Stage Directions, Prevention and Health, among many other publications. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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