Table of Contents

1: The Ravages of War
2: The Scurvy Wars
3: In the Beginning
4: Dawn of the Scientific Age
5: The Savants' Disputes
6: The Poor, the Rich, the Healthy and the Sick
7: Cheats and Poisoners
8: Paradigm Postponed: The Tardy Arrival of Vitamins
9: The Quarry Run to Earth
10: Fads and Quacks
11: The New Millennium: Profits and the higher quackery
12: Appendix: The hard science

About the Author

Walter Gratzer is a biophysicist. He spent most of his career at King's College London, with spells at Harvard and Columbia Universities. He is now Emeritus Professor at King's. Professor Gratzer has published numerous scientific papers, and many articles and reviews. He is the author of Eurekas and Euphorias and The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty.

Reviews

An irresistible cavalcade of cranks and charlatans. Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman