David Meredith Reese (1800–1861) was an American physician and skeptic.
Reese worked as a physician at the Bellevue Hospital until 1849.
[2] He had heavily criticized quackery in his book Humbugs of New York (1838).
[4] Reese's book was published several years before Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841) and has been described as early debunking work.
[5][6] In 1835, Reese published Letters to the Hon.