Michael Savage: healer??
Before he was a star of national talk radio, Michael Savage was a doctor of nutritional ethno-medicine, a scholar in the fields of medical botany and medical anthropology....Savage is a parent, too, and the author of a remarkable 17 books on the subject of health and nutrition.
So saith WorldNetDaily, while shilling the remainders of Savage's Healing Children Naturally, which has a total of TWO holdings on WorldCat. And a search under author "Michael Savage" on keywords "health" and "nutrition" (just in case there was a bibliographically different Michael Savage from the notorious "Michael Savage 1942-") brought up nothing else.
Ah, but something in that record brought me to Michael Savage's authority record, and it turns out he "is the same person as" Michael A. Weiner, who did publish a number of natural healing books. God only knows why he went into talk radio, but clearly. being a talker with the name Weiner would not do. As James Taranto says, "It's the eponymy, stupid!"
Comments
Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: August 6, 2007 10:20 PM
Not only talk radio, but his first field. There's very little nutritional about a weiner, even if it's made by Hebrew National.
But what in the name of Hippocrates is ethno-medicine? Or is that just a fancy way of saying Taoist or Aryuvedic medicine?
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: August 7, 2007 09:35 AM
Michael Savage may be a wiener as well as a weiner, but wieners come from Wien (Vienna).
One of his earlier books was on Native American herbalism. I doubt Weiner has much of a name among ethnobotanists.