The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How To Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

by Steven Novella

A 2008 study by Pride Chigwedere and others found that the policies of Mbeki between 2000 and 2005 resulted in more than 330,000 premature deaths, with a loss of 2.2 million person-years (the number of years those who died collectively would have lived). Further, 35,000 babies were born with HIV that could have been avoided with standard treatments. That is a lot of death by pseudoscience.