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Author: Bob McCoy ,
Robert McCoy
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Imprint: Santa Monica Press
Dimensions:
Width: 21.30cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 26.50cm
Weight: 0.669kg
ISBN: 9781891661105
ISBN 10: 1891661108
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 17 February 2000
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
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Reviews
""A stunning testament to the myriad ways people have tried to make money off the eternal ills of humankind."" -New York Times ""Snake oil salesmen, beware!"" -Time Magazine ""The country's largest assemblage of medical bunkum on display to the public . . . Bob McCoy is a barker for common sense in a carnival of medical quackery."" -American Medical Association News ""An assortment of medical devices that will at once amaze, entertain, and inform you!"" -Late Night with David Letterman ""P.T. Barnum once said there's a sucker born every minute. Bob McCoy would quickly add there's a quack born every hour to take advantage of that."" -Good Morning America ""If you're ill (curator) Robert McCoy just might have a machine designed to make you better. Unfortunately, it probably won't work."" -USA Today ""You should have your head examined!"" -The Today Show Bob McCoy's museum boasts a charlatan's web of medical chicanery . . . [a] monument to medical mountebankery . . ."" -People Magazine ""A lively history of quackery . . . a bizarre and enthusiastic book, perfect for anyone who savors the intersection of human folly and weird science."" -Salon.com ""Remedies like radium suppositories and the thermal prostatic warmer may have been discredited by science, but in the name of preserving these and other artifacts of American hucksterism, Bob McCoy has written Quack!, compiling the stories behind the bunco medical gadgets housed in his Minneapolis museum."" -Esquire Magazine
Author Information
Bob McCoy is the founder and curator of the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices in St. Anthony Main in Minneapolis. This is the nation's largest public display of ""quack"" medical devices and was founded in 1987. Mr. McCoy's past occupations include soap salesman, mill steel salesman, and family planning clinic administrator. He is a hobby printer, licensed humanist minister, and a member of the Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. It is as a skeptic that McCoy has worked to expose health fraud, and the museum is an entertaining and informative means of doing just that. He has been awarded the Special Citizenship award from the FDA for his work in exposing health fraud. McCoy is married with three grown children and five grandchildren.
