Quack To The Future
America Dissected
Incision Media LLC
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Traditional science-based medicine has some gaps—but what happens when grifters and scammers take advantage? Dr. Abdul El-Sayed leads us inside the underbelly of the cult of wellness. Dr. Jen Gunter, Twitter’s “Resident Gynecologist,” helps us understand modern quackery—and how we can apply scientific principles to make our best health decisions.
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| 0:00.0 | What if I told you I'd found the cure to insomnia, and that all it involved was gazing |
| 0:04.6 | at the world through blue-colored glass? |
| 0:06.7 | Or how about letting me diagnose your mental ailments, all by examining the bumps on your |
| 0:11.5 | head? |
| 0:12.5 | Now for the guys, what if I told you I could solve any issues you had with impotence |
| 0:16.7 | or sterility by implanting goat balls into your scrotum? |
| 0:20.6 | And magically you got that billy goat verve. |
| 0:22.7 | Or what if I told you I had the pill you could take, derived from raspberries, to trick |
| 0:27.1 | your body into acting like it's thin? |
| 0:29.5 | I know. |
| 0:30.4 | It all sounds kinda ridiculous, right? |
| 0:32.6 | Truth is, each one of those quack treatments had its time in the sun. |
| 0:36.4 | True believers who followed along, risking their lives and their wallets to cure whatever |
| 0:39.9 | ails them. |
| 0:41.6 | You might think they're all a thing of the past. |
| 0:43.8 | But while some of them are? |
| 0:45.2 | That last one? |
| 0:46.4 | Raspberry ketones? |
| 0:47.4 | That's from someone you can catch on Daytime TV. |
| 0:50.1 | I've got the number one miracle in a battle to burn your fat. |
| 0:54.4 | It's raspberry ketone. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm Dr. Abdul Elsa. |
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