Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
A Nonfiction, Popular Science, Medicine book. These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit. Ben Goldacre, Bad Science //
The informative and witty expose of the "bad science" we are all subjected to, called "one of the essential reads of the year" by New Scientist.We are obsessed with our health. And yet — from the media's "world-expert microbiologist" with a mail-order Ph.D. in his garden shed laboratory, and via multiple health scares and miracle cures — we are constantly bombarded with inaccurate, contradictory, and sometimes even misleading information. Until now. Ben Goldacre masterfully...
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- ISBN: 9780771035791 / 771035799
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These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit. Ben Goldacre, Bad Science // It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction Ben Goldacre, Bad Science // And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be wrong, but you'll be wrong with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now. Ben Goldacre, Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks //
I knew there was a lot of bad science & horrible media coverage out there, but I had no idea just how bad. This isn't a book just about that, though. While Goldacre does give some very good examples, he spends a lot of time teaching the reader how to spot bad science specifically in the field of medicine. I knew a lot of it, but the... 1- . . . 742212 742212 . https://youtu.be/HF_xkUnF4tc2- .3 1- . . . 742212 742212 . https://youtu.be/HF_xkUnF4tc2- .3 4- . . 2008 . . . . I wish that I could give this book 4 stars. I tell you what, I give the idea for this book 4 stars. Unfortunately though, the execution wasn't so fantastic. That said, I do think that anyone interested in the way that the media are able to influence public opinion about serious matters, and in the recent explosion of health-related...
