When?
Tuesday, February 7 2012 at 7:30PM
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Where?
The West Gate
38 Westgate Street
Bath,
BA1 1EL
(Used to be 'the Rat & Parrot')
Who?
Andy Lewis
What's the talk about?
You might argue that the wealth of the City of Bath has been derived from the claims of the healing effects of its waters. A City built on Quackery. In the 18th Century, Bath's prosperity grew as visitors flocked to take the waters. But it was not just the waters that were on offer and many other hucksters, charlatans and opportunists came here to offer their healing wares.
Few of those therapies still exist - most are long forgotten. Why do some unorthodox healing practices thrive and others fade away? What makes a successful quackery? Should the good citiziens of Bath want to invent a new successful form of alternative medicine, how should they go about it?
Andy Lewis developed
the Quackometer website that explores the pseudoscientific claims of alternative medicine websites and their impact on society. Despite his detractors' claims, he does not own a yatch in the South of France paid for by Big Pharma...