The greatest quack ever

摘要

Dudley J.LeBlanc was a Louisiana senator in the 1940s whose unrivalled skill and enthusiasm for promoting his Hadacol vitamin supplement earned him the Time magazine accolade of"a stem-winding salesman who knows every razzle-dazzle switch in the pitchman's trade".The author of The Guardians Bad Science column,Ben Goldacre,calls him"the greatest quack ever to live".