Senate. They have a Congress. They have an army. They have a navy. They have departments. They... It's... It walks like a duck. It quacks like a duck. In the end, it's a slaughtered duck faster than it would've been because the United States military forces crushed it- We should say that you are respected, admired, loved by most people on both sides in, from a perspective sense. You're
But because I was able to see what was working and conversely, what was not working with the people that were reading it at the time, you could totally. It completely changed things. Quackslerod being the biggest of all of it. But yeah, throughout the whole thing. Brian Fitzpatrick: Well, there were the small, like the "Back to the Future" thing.
uh tomorrow and this is what I said on the phone to the most brilliant oncology doctor in the world I said what kind of a quack are you it takes me six months to be able to see my doctor but you're just going to pencil me in for tomorrow so I assume that he's just got this availability he's not that great and he said no no no we'll make time for you just come down
And yet all of those individual subjects-- and we make it up to one recipe-- is really prone to life-hacking and quick fixes and quackery and stuff that is really, really confusing. So most people don't lack motivation if they sort of have a performance mindset.
And the at replies just exploded on Quackslerod. So it was like, "Oh, this duck should probably stick around, I guess, for a little while 'cause people are really enjoying it." And that Quackslerod character just became this thing that I could not have possibly predicted. And had I written it like a normal story, it never would have existed.
I just did one, honestly, I just did a story a few episodes ago. It was about this quack doctor from the 1920s. And he believed, or he told people that he believed, that if he could implant goat testicles
And the bigger aspect is just everything that was going on culturally around you guys. He was just a quack , just all right.
A bushel of malt, a barrel of hops, stirred around with sticks, the type of irrigation to make your 40 pints of wallop will keep away the quacks . It's only ha'pence a penny a pint and 1 and 6 in tax.
I thought she was kind of cool looking, and she kept saying, would you please participate in the quack -off? We need more quackers. We need to have more participants.
His name was Clarence Ducky Nash. And so we participated in this quack -off and I won. Hello, everybody. How are you today?
But, again, my skeptical brain sort of thinking, that sounds like, at best, wishful thinking, and at worst, just good old fashioned snake oil selling quackery. But then I started investigating further.
tweet after that, the joke is much better. He names it Quackslerod. But that was supposed to be the whole thing. Like, the duck was gonna fly off. And the at replies just exploded on Quackslerod. So it was like, "Oh, this duck should probably stick around, I guess, for a little while 'cause people are really enjoying it." And that Quackslerod character just became this thing that I could not have possibly predicted.
other forms of alternative medicine. Sometimes you might consider them quackery. But in any case uh the openness that has been produced by this impulse from below by women organizing around medical issues is really an important example of a broader uh phenomena do it yourself of refusing the
It gives you a peek inside her brain. The problem is we know that there is a lot of quack medicine that could be sold to ignorant people.
anyway but we had a chess game that actually had some pretty good AI but I was proud of that anyway um went forward we did Quack and a whole bunch of other fun stuff this game touch me was
write con you know colleagues of mine who were actually specialists in this and say you know is this person a quack should I read this of course they say there are quack I'll still read it but I'd like to know I'd like to know that you know 999 % of the field finds this you know completely insane and that's important for people taking this
This is a question that I was asked about. And it was actually on the show "Duck Quacks Don't Echo" asked about this. It's not my research, but it's quite an interesting look into how we can change our voices for different things.
And I said to George Sledge, who was the president of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists, unknown to me. I said, what kind of a quack are you if you have availability like this? I can't see my dentist for six months.
Brian Fitzpatrick: So other than your fascination with celery salt, how did you keep this secret the whole time? Surely there was one point where you just wanted to be like, "Tell everybody." Brian Fitzpatrick: Carl the Intern, Quack the Duck.
and conspiracy theories, and medical quackery, and paranormal woo-woo.
principle of ducks. If it walks and quacks and swims and flies like a duck, it probably is a duck.
In the Q and A, you might ask Tom about quack radium cures in the 1920s if you want to get into unexpected things.
person Y being wrong because that you've used this you know crazy methodology or something so then I have to call or write con you know colleagues of mine who were actually specialists in this and say you know is this person a quack should I read this of course they say there are quack I'll still read it but I'd like to know I'd like to know that
Well, it started basically in 1866 as a little house with some quacky doctors and some pretty bad food.
doctors, advocating a specific drug to cure a specific disease seems the height of quackery.
And the female spent weeks wandering around the yard, quacking , and calling, and looking, and calling, and looking.
period. She's talking about "Exploitation of the mass medium was more common among pseudoscientists and quacks than among Latin-writing professional scientists, who often withheld their work from the press." Well, this is 220
You got nothing on Disney. When I worked at the studios, I participated in a voice contest-- a voice contest-- we lovingly called it a quack -off. Think about that. You can't say that word in Missouri, but you could say in California.
And I participated in this only because the woman who was in charge of putting it on had kind of caught my eye. I thought she was kind of cool looking, and she kept saying, would you please participate in the quack -off? We need more quackers.
And the bigger aspect is just everything that was going on culturally around you guys. They're like quaaludes. Anyway, I used to get them from this quack in Harley Street.
I looked online to get more information, and it seemed like the government and the entire medical community thought this guy was a quack .
driving fat accumulation. So we have to get the carbs out of their life and I sound like a quack diet book doctor
in the Large Hadron Collider that looked like Higgs', that walked like Higgs's, that quacked like Higgs's, and we thought were Higgs's, OK?
There was another story, which I tell in the book, of a double-blind trial of a diagnostic technique, which is used by some quacks
think it's been a major factor partly because, until the 20th century, most doctors were quacks who killed as many people as they saved. And also there were many forms of violence
or why we get fat, the idea that your fat tissue is regulated and has anything to say about this, it's considered radical and quackish. Okay?
Because he sees a duck and he somehow thinks it reminds him of Axlerod. And so, he names it. Actually, in the original tweet, he names it Axlerod, which is really stupid. The second tweet after that, the joke is much better. He names it Quackslerod. But that was supposed to be the whole thing. Like, the duck was gonna fly off. And the at replies just exploded on Quackslerod. So it was like, "Oh, this duck should probably stick around, I guess, for a little while 'cause people are really enjoying it." And