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JAMA and the mountebank

Nature volume 451, pages 628–629 (2008)Cite this article

A timely tale of one man's mission to stamp out medical fraudsters in 1920s America.

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  1. Michael Shermer is adjunct professor of economics at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California 91711, USA. He is publisher of Skeptic magazine (http://www.skeptic.com) and author of The Mind of the Market.,

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