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Bad Science
McClelland & Stewart 2010; US$ 19.99The 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... more...
Bad Science
Faber & Faber 2010; US$ 15.99Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol consumption? Or how a drug that is pulled off the market for causing heart attacks ever got approved in the first place? How can average readers, who aren?t medical doctors or Ph.D.s in biochemistry,... more...
Bad Pharma
McClelland & Stewart 2013; US$ 29.99We all feel uncomfortable about the role of profit in healthcare, we all have a vague notion that the global $600bn pharmaceutical industry is somehow evil and untrustworthy, but that sense rarely goes beyond a flaky, undifferentiated new age worldview. Bad Pharma puts real flesh on those bones, revealing the rigged evidence used by drug companies.... more...
Bad Pharma
Faber & Faber 2013; US$ 28.99We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart medication are familiar with the research literature about... more...
Bad Pharma: How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; Not Available?Bad Science? hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. more...
Bad Science
HarperCollins Publishers 2008; Not AvailableBen Goldacre?s wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations. more...
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