50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True Part 17

AND NO SIDE EFFECTS!"

1. University of Abertay Dundee, "Homeopathy Is 'Dangerous and Wasteful,' Bioethics Expert Argues," ScienceDaily, May 9, 2011, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110509065749.htm (accessed July 7, 2011).

2. Bruce Hood, The Science of Superst.i.tion: How the Developing Brain Creates Supernatural Beliefs (New York: HarperCollins Paperback, 2010), p. 157.

3. Ben Goldacre, Bad Science (New York: Faber and Faber, 2010), p. 35.

4. Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst, Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008), p. 93.

5. Laura Donnelly, "Homeopathy Is Witchcraft, Say Doctors," Telegraph, May 15, 2010, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/alternativemedicine/7728281/Homeopathy-is-witchcraft-say-doctors.html (accessed December 10, 2010).

6. Katelyn Catanzariti, "Homeopath, Wife Jailed over Baby's Death," Sydney Morning Herald, September 28, 2009, http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/homeopath-wife-jailed-over-babys-death-20090928-g8w4.html (accessed January 22, 2011).

7. Richard Oakley, "Call for Stricter Checks on Therapists," Sunday Times, June 19, 2005, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article535014.ece (accessed January 1, 2011).

8. "Healer Dies after Letting Cut Foot Rot," Metro, November 17, 2008, http://www.metro.co.uk/news/405720-healer-dies-after-letting-cut-foot-rot (accessed March 15, 2011).

9. Yusuke f.u.kui and Akiko Okazaki, "Homeopathy under Scrutiny after Lawsuit over Death of Infant," Asahi s.h.i.+mbun, September 6, 2010, http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201008050254.html (accessed January 20, 2011).

10. Pallab Ghosh, "Homeopathic Practices 'Risk Lives,'" BBC News, July 13, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5178488.stm (accessed January 22, 2011).

CHAPTER 25: "FAITH HEALING CURES THE SICK.

AND SAVES LIVES."

1. The problem of unhealed amputees has its own site at http://whywontG.o.dhealamputees.com/G.o.d5.htm.

2. Guy P. Harrison, "G.o.d Is in This Place," Caymanian Compa.s.s, November 19, 1993, pp. 1011.

3. Terrence Hines, Pseudoscience and the Paranormal (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003), pp. 34648.

CHAPTER 26: "RACE-BASED MEDICINE IS A GREAT IDEA.".

1. American Anthropological a.s.sociation, "Statement on 'Race,'" May 17, 1998, http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/racepp.htm (accessed February 1, 2011).

2. Kenan Malik, "Is This the Future We Really Want? Different Drugs for Different Races," TimesOnline, June 18, 2005, www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article534565.ece (accessed January 11, 2011).

3. Charles N. Rotimi, "Are Medical and Nonmedical Uses of Large-Scale Genomic Markers Conflating Genetics and 'Race'?" Nature Genetics, October 2004.

4. Jonathon Marks, interview by the author, February 2009.

5. National Human Genome Research Inst.i.tute, "The Human Genome Project Completion," April 14, 2003, updated October 30, 2010, http://www.genome.gov/11006943 (accessed March 3, 2011).

6. Emily Singer, "The $30 Genome?" Technology Review, June 7, 2010, http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/25481/ (accessed November 10, 2010).

7. "Backgrounders from the Unnatural Causes Health Equity Database," from Unnatural Causes...Is Inequality Making Us Sick? pp. 910, www.unnaturalcauses.org (companion website for doc.u.mentary; accessed November 6, 2010).

8. Ibid., p. 10.

CHAPTER 27: "NO VACCINES FOR MY BABY!".

1. Paul A. Offit, Book TV, C-Span2, January 27, 2011.

2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Update: Measles," August 28, 2008, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5733a1.htm (accessed February 12, 2011).

3. Paul A. Offit, Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All (New York: Basic Books, 2010), p. 92.

4. Paul A. Offit, Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), p. 24.

5. Offit, Deadly Choices, pp. 9496.

6. Michael Specter, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (New York: Penguin Press, 2009), p. 72.

7. Andy Coghlan, "Autism Rises Despite MMR Ban in j.a.pan," New Scientist, March 5, 2005, www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524895.300-autism-rises-despite-mmr-ban-in-j.a.pan.html (accessed January 15, 2011).

8. Specter, Denialism, p. 71.

9. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), "Vaccines Bring Seven Diseases under Control," http://www.unicef.org/pon96/hevaccin.htm (accessed January 17, 2011).

10. Offit, Deadly Choices, p. ix.

11. Paul A. Offit, interview with the author, April 14, 2011.

12. Offit, Deadly Choices, p. ix.

13. Ibid., p. xviii.

14. Ibid., p. 37.

15. World Health Organization, "Influenza," March 2003, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/2003/fs211/en/ (accessed April 2, 2011).

16. Shawn R. Browning, interview with the author, March 3, 2011.

17. Offit, Autism's False Prophets, p. 247.

18. Specter, Denialism, p. 97.

19. Sarah Bruyn Jones, "Whooping Cough Outbreak in Floyd County Blamed on Lax Vaccinations," Roanoke Times, April 6, 2011, http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/282419 (accessed April 11, 2011).

CHAPTER 29: "MY RELIGION IS THE ONE THAT'S TRUE.".

1. Steven Prothero, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know-And Doesn't (New York: HarperOne, 2007), p. 5.

2. Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, "US Religious Knowledge Survey," September 28, 2010, http://pewforum.org/other-beliefs-and-practices/u-s-religious-knowledge-survey.aspx (accessed November 27, 2010).

CHAPTER 30: "CREATIONISM IS TRUE AND EVOLUTION IS NOT.".

1. Guy P. Harrison, "The Dinosaur Hunter," Caymanian Compa.s.s, September 14, 2001, p. B6.

2. Guy P. Harrison, "Lucy in the Sky," Caymanian Compa.s.s, August 23, 2002, p. A11.

3. Frank Newport, "Four in 10 Americans Believe in Strict Creationism," Gallup News Service, December 17, 2010, http://www.gallup.com/poll/145286/Four-Americans-Believe-Strict-Creationism.aspx (accessed January 3, 2011).

4. Tim White, interview with the author. Quoted in Guy P. Harrison, "Who's Your Daddy?" Caymanian Compa.s.s, October 17, 2003, p. A16.

5. National Academy of Sciences and Inst.i.tute of Medicine, Science, Evolution, and Creationism (Was.h.i.+ngton, DC: National Academies Press, 2008), p. 7.

CHAPTER 31: "INTELLIGENT DESIGN IS REAL SCIENCE.".

1. Jonathan Marks, Why I Am Not a Scientist (Berkley: University of California Press, 2009), pp. 11819.

2. John Brockman, ed., Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement (New York: Vintage Books, 2006), p. 22.

3. Michael Shermer, Science Friction (New York: Times Books, 2004), p. 199.

CHAPTER 33: "MANY PROPHECIES HAVE COME TO Pa.s.s.".

1. Koran 54:1.

CHAPTER 34: "PRAYER WORKS!".

1. "How Monks Find Their Happy Groove," CNN, November 19, 2008, http://articles.cnn.com/200811-19/health/brain.meditation_1_buddhist-monks-meditation-brain?_s=PM:HEALTH (accessed February 19, 2011).

2. Save the Children, "State of the World's Mothers," http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6748295/k.BE47/State_of_the_Worlds_Mothers_2011_Statistics_and_Facts.htm (accessed May 11, 2011).

CHAPTER 35: "RELIGIONS ARE SENSIBLE AND SAFE. CULTS ARE SILLY AND DANGEROUS."

1. All quotes from Deborah Layton can be found in Guy P. Harrison, "Facing the Darkness," Caymanian Compa.s.s, October 25, 2002, p. A10.

CHAPTER 36: "THEY FOUND NOAH'S ARK!".