- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0865479186
- ISBN-13: 978-0865479180
- Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 14 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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#162,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #49 in Books > Science > Essays & Commentary
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Must read ! ! !,
This review is from: Bad Science: Quacks Hacks And Big Pharma Flacks (Paperback)
This is a must read for anyone who wants to cut through the sensationalist crap about health published in our newspapers. Clearly & humorously written. It's a modern day antidote to outing con-artists & correcting friends' spouting on about the latest diet fad or medical miracle.
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Science for non-science people,
By E. Fields "Sexy Hypnotoad" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bad Science: Quacks Hacks And Big Pharma Flacks (Paperback)
Full disclosure: I am an ex-English major who hasn't taken a science class since high school. When I started reading this book (I got my copy when it was released in England), I was scared that I wouldn't be able to follow along. But I was SO WRONG- this book really gets beneath the pseudo-science (and flat out WRONG science claims) and explains everything in such a relaxed, simple, and intuitive way, I never had a problem. I learned so much from this, and I had considered myself pretty well informed BEFORE I read the book! This should be mandatory reading for ANYONE who is anti-vaccination, or pro-homeopathy. Brilliant stuff. (His blog is great too!)
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recommended for all skeptics (and even more so for the credulous),
By Neurasthenic "neurasthenic" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Bad Science: Quacks Hacks And Big Pharma Flacks (Paperback)
Bad Science is an excellent entry to the genre of skeptical books that are, in this country, associated with Michael Shermer, James Randi, and Paul Kurtz. It is a pleasure to read, both because Goldacre writes well, and because the books from Shermer, et al, are very similar to each other and this one is in many regards refreshingly different.Part of this stems from its national origin -- this is a very British book. As a result, it has a lot more about the MMR-vaccine-causes-autism nonsense than would have appeared in an American book, as the media panic in the U.K. was much greater than the one here. It similarly has less on faith healing and other topics that loom larger in the American consciousness. But the book also differs in approach. In the quintessential American members of the genre, various bits of nonsense are debunked with a combination of common sense and powerful anecdote. American writers are particularly fond of grand gestures, sneaking into the back room and discovering the wizard hiding behind the curtain. That's not Goldacre's style at all. Instead, his favorite tool is the statistical blobbogram. The main targets of his scorn are holistic healers, vendors of pharmaceuticals and vitamins, who lie and abuse statistical techniques to mislead people into buying products that don't work instead of using ones that do. He similarly rails against the journalists who enable these malefactors. Goldacre is a physician, so he spends most of his time on medical topics, but not all. I enjoyed and appreciated every chapter of this book, and I hope many other people read it too. 26 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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Simply Excellent,
By Gem Newman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bad Science: Quacks Hacks And Big Pharma Flacks (Paperback)
I read this book several years ago, after ordering it from amazon.co.uk, and am very pleased that it's coming to North America. Although many of the examples used will be UK-specific, and thus perhaps unfamiliar to readers, the content remains very pertinent. Science and skepticism are sorely needed everywhere, but most especially in the field of medicine. In this book Dr. Ben Goldacre provides us with a wonderful primer on evaluating claims made in this most important of areas.
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