Boing Boing » youtubescience http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:00:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Fight quackery! 1950s FDA public service announcement http://boingboing.net/2011/08/29/fight-quakery-1950s-fda-public-service-announcement.html http://boingboing.net/2011/08/29/fight-quakery-1950s-fda-public-service-announcement.html#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:11:40 +0000 Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/?p=115769

Here's a fine old FDA public service announcement in which Raymond Massey gravely warns America to steer clear of bizarro quack devices that claim to treat arthritis with z-rays or cure cancer with music.

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