Synopsis
Shows the ways in which medical quacks dupe the consumer and the steps taken by local and federal agencies to protect the public. A young man grows concerned at his mother's fascination with a local alternative medicine practitioner. Skeptical of the practitioner's healing claims, he seeks confirmation of his beliefs from medical and public health professionals, and begins to conspire with them against his mother. Typical of medically motivated critiques of unconventional medicine, this film also recalls the anticommunist witchhunts of the fifties.
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Details
- Running time
- 19 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- 0094_Quacks_and_Nostrums_06_00_37_00
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Quack quack quack · Spuzz · 2016-03-02
After attending a lecture by 'Aluka Khahuma' (in what appears to be a shrimp roll around her head) a mother returns to tell her son all the wonderful things the man can cure with his wonder tea. The son, who is trying to find SOME sort of topic on a term paper, doesn't buy this tea business, and goes to his mother's doctor, who reccomends seeing officials at the Food and Drug administration and other governmental offices, who seem to have all the time in the world to answer all his questions about quacks. This isn't as interesting as it all sounds, as it soon stalls while one official sits…