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Review title: Voodoo medicine
Product review: Another semi-scientist playing to the public's insecurities about health and self-image. Falsities and mis-interpretations begin in the first chapter with anthropological mis-interpretations and mis-understandings. You understand why when you go to his bibliography and see that the genetics and anthropology books he referenced were written in the first half of the twentieth century. This is pre-DNA folks. It gets no better. But what is most disturbing is that my 14 year old daughter requested the book as a Christmas gift. Foolishly, I ordered it. Not so foolishly I read it (not all I must admit). She will receive it as a gift, and hopefully as a lesson in poor science and publishing greed.
