Is lowering your temperature when you have a fever helpful? Do you really need to finish every course of antibiotics? Or could some of the treatments you think are healing you actually be harming you?
Medicine has significantly advanced in the last few decades. But while we have learned a lot, we still rely on medical interventions that are vastly out of date and can adversely affect our health.
In this game-changing book, infectious-disease expert and Rotavirus vaccine inventor Dr Offit highlights fifteen common medical interventions still recommended and practised by medical professionals, despite clear evidence that they are harmful — including the treatment of acid reflux in babies and the reliance on heart stents and knee surgery.
By presenting medical alternatives, Overkill gives patients invaluable information to help them ask their doctors better questions and to advocate for their own health.
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‘A myth-busting book.’
" - Daily Mail
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‘With ample end notes (50 pages worth) to support challenges he may expect to be forthcoming, this hit-list of medical myths and misguided therapies comes from a highly reputable source - the director of Vaccine Education at the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia and a professor of vaccinology and paediatrics.’
" - GPSpeak
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Praise for Bad Advice:
‘In breezy and deceptively conversational prose that often winks with humour, Bad Advice breaks down complex scientific subjects that have been distorted through several cultural lenses’
" - The Washington Post
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Praise for Pandora's Lab:
‘Many dramatic scientific discoveries have lost their gloss or perhaps were never scientific to begin with, as pediatrician Offit shows in this heated denunciation of bad science … In warning the public of pseudoscientific danger, Offit urges the public to examine available data; beware of quick fixes, fads, and charismatic health gurus; and understand that every advance comes at a price.’
" - Publishers Weekly
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Praise for Pandora's Lab:
‘Pandora's Lab deftly details seven scientific mistakes that have occurred over the last 100 years … Sufficient data exposes the truth when different scientists verify the claims, but this work's examples reveal how this obvious check procedure becomes ignored or bypassed in response to extraordinary hopes, popular movements, and/or by defaulting to one individual.’
" - Choice
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Praise for Do You Believe in Magic?:
‘Over the last decade [Offit] has become a leading debunker of mass misconceptions surrounding infections and vaccines, and now he is taking on the entire field of alternative medicine, from acupuncture to vitamins.’
" - New York Times
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Medicine has significantly advanced in the last few decades. But while we have learned a lot, we still rely on medical interventions that are vastly out of date and can adversely affect our health.
In this game-changing book, infectious-disease expert and Rotavirus vaccine inventor Dr Offit highlights fifteen common medical interventions still recommended and practised by medical professionals, despite clear evidence that they are harmful — including the treatment of acid reflux in babies and the reliance on heart stents and knee surgery.
By presenting medical alternatives, Overkill gives patients invaluable information to help them ask their doctors better questions and to advocate for their own health.
"
‘A myth-busting book.’
" - Daily Mail
"
‘With ample end notes (50 pages worth) to support challenges he may expect to be forthcoming, this hit-list of medical myths and misguided therapies comes from a highly reputable source - the director of Vaccine Education at the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia and a professor of vaccinology and paediatrics.’
" - GPSpeak
"
Praise for Bad Advice:
‘In breezy and deceptively conversational prose that often winks with humour, Bad Advice breaks down complex scientific subjects that have been distorted through several cultural lenses’
" - The Washington Post
"
Praise for Pandora's Lab:
‘Many dramatic scientific discoveries have lost their gloss or perhaps were never scientific to begin with, as pediatrician Offit shows in this heated denunciation of bad science … In warning the public of pseudoscientific danger, Offit urges the public to examine available data; beware of quick fixes, fads, and charismatic health gurus; and understand that every advance comes at a price.’
" - Publishers Weekly
"
Praise for Pandora's Lab:
‘Pandora's Lab deftly details seven scientific mistakes that have occurred over the last 100 years … Sufficient data exposes the truth when different scientists verify the claims, but this work's examples reveal how this obvious check procedure becomes ignored or bypassed in response to extraordinary hopes, popular movements, and/or by defaulting to one individual.’
" - Choice
"
Praise for Do You Believe in Magic?:
‘Over the last decade [Offit] has become a leading debunker of mass misconceptions surrounding infections and vaccines, and now he is taking on the entire field of alternative medicine, from acupuncture to vitamins.’
" - New York Times
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