You Are Not So Smart: A Dark Comedy

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David: My new book, How Minds Change, I Say It's New, it just had its one year birthday but it really feels like it just came out. The University of Wisconsin Madison just named it as its big old book of the year. He says he thinks we're going to see bigger and better and more extreme bizarre medicines and zombie conspiracy theories. David: If you would like me to give a lecture at your weird location, just email me.

At the peak of COVID-19, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling set out to write a book about the widespread pushback against masks and vaccines as away to discuss the rise of the medical freedom movement in America. But after meeting a series of people within that movement his efforts took a sharp turn into the motivations, tribulations, and personal lives of the people who sell miracle cures and dietary supplements, skirting the law when they can, and heading to jail when they can't. The book is titled, If it Sounds Like a Quack, and it is a deep dive into the marketplace of snake oils and magical procedures sold by people who each claim to have found the one true cure for any and everything that could ever ail you.

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