Criticisms
One claim in the book has been called pseudoscience. Dr. Stephen Lower, retired Professor of Chemistry at Simon Fraser University, disputes some of the book's statements about alkaline water on his web site. Kurzweil and Grossman counter this specific criticism directly in their Reader Q&A.
Grossman's credibility has been criticized for being a licensed homeopath, as homeopathy is regarded by the scientific community to be medical quackery (see medical and scientific analysis of homeopathy). Grossman also founded the Grossman Wellness Center, a clinic employing (among other methods) Traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture, which has been shown by systematic reviews to have no better effect than insertion of needles in placebo points (see Criticism of traditional Chinese medicine theory).
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