Medical Myth-Buster

The absolute lack of knowledge of even the most elementary things about diseases and medicines has left the people highly vulnerable to all sorts of medical myths and pseudoscience. That's why people flock in droves to peddlers of miraculous cures who make billions by promising cures of the most dreaded diseases just by following their peculiar exercises and diet, taking their drugs of undisclosed composition, and by attending their health camps. Medical myths of all sorts have been lingering since long because most people lack critical faculties and have no desire to question something in which most other people have also believed. Then, most people find it difficult to grasp the complexities of scientific research, preferring simpler narratives that align with their notions and beliefs. Regrettably, the Indian medical fraternity in particular has all along failed singularly in educating the people about getting rid of their myths. Medical practice in India has, in fact, been 'Indianized' to suit the people's limited knowledge and their inherent proclivities. This book accomplishes what the medical fraternity has failed to do—educating the people. It presents a technical subject in such a lucid manner that even a layman shall be able to understand it BUT without sacrificing scientific rigor. Newspaper articles, at best, quote mere medical practitioners who, in turn, give either graduate-level textbook information or their personal opinion. This book, on the other hand, regards only peer-reviewed research papers as reliable. Authenticated by a formidable array of as many as 453 high-level research papers published in the most prestigious medical journals, this is the ultimate destroyer of myths.