John Brinkley: The Quackiest Quack in History?
John Brinkley was perhaps the biggest quack who ever claimed to be practicing medicine. Learn all about this not so good guy today!
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Explore "medical fraud" with insightful episodes like "John Brinkley: The Quackiest Quack in History?", "Dr. Teen Love, MD | Master of Deception" and "Part One: The Founding Father of Fake Cancer Cures" from podcasts like ""Stuff You Should Know", "Scamfluencers" and "Behind the Bastards"" and more!
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Dr. Teen Love, MD | Master of Deception
Malachi Love-Robinson, a sickly teenager from South Florida, has dreams of becoming a doctor someday. The only problem? He doesn’t want to wait. With just a white lab coat and a stethoscope, Malachi transforms himself into “Doctor Love” and launches a medical career. Unfortunately, as with all good scammers, he gets too ambitious, raising the stakes higher and higher, until one day, the “Doctor” meets the wrong “patient.”
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Part One: The Founding Father of Fake Cancer Cures
Robert is joined by Billy Wayne Davis to discuss Harry Hoxsey, the fake Cancer-Curing Alex Jones of the 1950s!
FOOTNOTES:
- Cancer War: The FDA Vs. Harry Hoxsey
- HOXSEY, HARRY M.
- The Medical Messiahs: Chapter 17
- The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery
- Nature Doctors
- The History of The Hoxsey Formula in Cancer Support
- Hoxsey Herbal Therapy
- Carrying their last hopes, ill Americans cross border
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