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Nate Pedersen

About the Author

Nate Pedersen is an award-winning nonfiction writer based in Minnesota. His books include Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World’s Worst Diseases, and Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them.

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