Skeptical Inquirer Presents Quack Quack: The Threat of Pseudoscience

### Skeptical Inquirer Presents

# Quack Quack: The Threat of Pseudoscience

### Featuring: Dr. Joe Schwarcz

##### March 2, 2023 - 7:00 pm EST

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We are in a crisis. A tsunami of misinformation and disinformation is threatening to engulf evidence-based science. While quackery ― loosely defined as the spread of false “knowledge,” often accompanied by various versions of “snake oil” ― is not a novel phenomenon, it has never posed as great a threat to public health as it does today.
On the next Skeptical Inquirer Presents event on Thursday, March 2, at 7:00 p.m. ET, bestselling author Dr. Joe Schwarcz will discuss his latest book, Quack Quack: The Threat of Pseudoscience. Professor Schwarcz has been battling flimflam for decades, and in Quack Quack he focuses on the deluge of anecdotes, cherry-picked data, pseudoscientific nonsense, and seductive baseless health claims that are undermining efforts to educate the public about evidence-based science. It’s a life preserver for a world that’s drowning in a sea of misinformation.
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Dr. Joe Schwarcz is Director of McGill University’s “Office for Science and Society,” which has the mission of separating sense from nonsense. Professor Schwarcz has received numerous awards, including being the first non-American ever to win the American Chemical Society’s prestigious Grady-Stack Award. He was also awarded the 2015 Balles Prize for Critical Thinking by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Well-known for his informative and entertaining public lectures on topics ranging from the chemistry of food to the connection between the body and the mind, Professor Schwarcz is also the author of several bestselling books and a frequent guest on The Discovery Channel, CTV, CBC, TV Ontario, and more.
Recently the Office has focused on trying to unravel the mysteries of COVID-19.