{{short description|British writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2019}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2010}} '''Rose Shapiro''' is a British writer who contributes regularly to several publications including ''The Independent'', ''The Observer'', ''The Guardian'',<ref>{{citation | url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jul/24/healthandwellbeing.radovankaradzic | date=24 July 2008 | accessdate=10 April 2016 | title=A bad week for alternative medicine | author=Shapiro, Rose | newspaper=The Guardian }}</ref> ''Time Out'', ''Good Housekeeping'' and the ''Health Service Journal''. She wrote the book ''Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All''.

She lives in Bristol<ref>{{cite web | title=Author Details for Rose Shapiro | publisher=Penguin Books | url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/rose-shapiro/1050282/ | accessdate=10 April 2016 }}</ref> and has two daughters, Isabel and Judith. Her late husband Sam Organ was a television producer for BBC Bristol.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sam Organ obituary | url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/may/18/sam-organ-obituary |newspaper=The Guardian |author=Salmon, Peter |date=18 May 2010}}</ref>

==Books== ''Suckers: How alternative medicine makes fools of us all'', Vintage Books 2008, {{ISBN|978-1-84655-028-7}}

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==External links== * {{cite news|title=Quacks on the rack (review of Suckers)|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/may/04/booksonhealth.scienceandnature |author=Laing, Olivia |date=3 May 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=10 April 2016}} * {{cite magazine|url=http://newhumanist.org.uk/1744 |title=Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools Of Us All by Rose Shapiro | author=Haynes, Natalie |authorlink=Natalie Haynes |date=4 March 2008 | accessdate=10 April 2016 | magazine=New Humanist}}

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