Update your bookmarks!! www.museumofquackery.com

This is the NEW website for Bob McCoy

World-renowned expert on Medical Quackery and Health Fraud,
and founder of The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices,
which is now located at the Science Museum of Minnesota.
(St. Anthony Main location closed as of January 2002.)

Watch clips of Bob's past TV appearances in our new:
Video Vault!

Listen to the NPR Story about Bob McCoy's retirement CLICK HERE
Story from the BBC... CLICK HERE

Autographed books, videos, posters & more still available in our:
Museum of Questionable Medical Devices Store!

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Come One! Come All !!!

Devious Displays of Quackery, Fraud, Deceit and
Deception -- the largest collection of medical chicanery and mayhem ever assembled under one roof !!!

Step right up !! .........

Sound like a carnival barker? A snake oil salesman? A sideshow shill? Well, you're close .....

Bob McCoy, its proprietor, is a veritable encyclopedia of the world's most inane and useless information about how to cure and/or comprehend what may ail or puzzle you. He's the guy at left getting a "phrenology" reading (the machine measures the size of bumps on the head to determine his personality). The reading lets him know how he's doing on any of 35 character traits like intelligence, spirituality,suavity and chastity (all the bumps can be mapped -- above right). If you visit the museum, you can have your bumps measured too. (Yes, the machines do still work.)

Dubbed "The Quackery Hall of Fame" by the Copley Wire Service, the museum is the world's largest display of what the human mind has devised to cure itself without the benefit of either scientific method or common sense. It comprises the major collections on loan from The American Medical Association, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, The St. Louis Science Center, The Bakken Library, The National Council Against Health Fraud .

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Speaking of books, here's Bob's!

"A stunning testament to the myriad of ways people have tried to make money off the eternal ills of humankind." -New York Times "Snake oil salesmen, beware!" - Time Magazine "An assortment of medical devices that will at once amaze, entertain, and inform you!" -Late Night With David Letterman Amazon.com Rating

Quack! Tales of Medical Fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices by Bob McCoy, Curator   The curator of the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices shares his collection of the hilarious, horrifying, and preposterous medical devices that have been foisted upon the public in their quest for good health. Includes the Prostate Gland Warmer, Phrenology Machine, Recto Rotor, Nose Straightener, Wonder Electro Marvel, and hundreds of other quack devices. With period advertisements, promotional literature, and gadget instructions, this book offers a wealth of past-and-present medical fraud. Available autographed. $25 Or unsigned $19.95 Also available at amazon.com

A sampling of the amazingly useless gadgets that await you:

"A few volts of electricity appropriately applied will put the sparks back into your love life!" , says McCoy holding a machine that claimed to increase virility (and cure prostate problems).

And for the ladies ... a foot powered breast enlarger!!

Then we have soap that sudses off pounds. And if the soap doesn't work for you, how about a pair of weight reduction glasses ? Stand in front of lights flashing prismatic colors that "guarantee" health and well being. Expose yourself to the "magic" of radio waves ... yes, quackery is alive and well on the banks of the mighty Mississippi........

Learn the stories of
Great American Quacks
Check out our on-line
Device Collection
See graphics from the
Ephemera Collections
Visit the newly improved:
Museum Gift Store
Watch Bob's TV appearances in our:
Video Vault
Don't leave without seeing our
Quack Links

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The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
Bob McCoy, proprietor

St. Anthony Main location closed as of January 2002.

Website moved to www.museumofquackery.com May 2007*

READ and LISTEN to the Voice of America article about Bob McCoy's retirement HERE

Page last modified 3/18/08
*formerly http://www.mtn.org/quack/