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Also by Paul A. Offit:

Do You Believe in Magic?, June 2013
Paperback
Deadly Choices, January 2011
Hardcover
Autism's False Prophets, September 2008
Hardcover

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC?
By: Paul A. Offit

The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine

Harper
June 2013
On Sale: June 18, 2013
340 pages
ISBN: 0062222961
EAN: 9780062222961
Paperback
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help Health

In Do You Believe in Magic?, medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly.

Dr. Offit reveals how alternative medicine—an unregulated industry under no legal obligation to prove its claims or admit its risks—can actually be harmful to our health.

Using dramatic real-life stories, Offit separates the sense from the nonsense, showing why any therapy—alternative or traditional—should be scrutinized. He also shows how some nontraditional methods can do a great deal of good, in some cases exceeding therapies offered by conventional practitioners.

An outspoken advocate for science-based health advocacy who is not afraid to take on media celebrities who promote alternative practices, Dr. Offit advises, “There’s no such thing as alternative medicine. There’s only medicine that works and medicine that doesn’t.”

Media Buzz

On Point - July 9, 2013
CBS This Morning - June 18, 2013