[Mobile library] Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
✿ Ben Goldacre ✿
| #29647 in Books | 2010-10-12 | 2010-10-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .33 x.82 x5.52l,.61 | File Name: 0865479186 | 304 pages
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| one of the good guys|By Christopher A. Meli|In some sense this book is more about the importance of the free press than "bad science". Chapter 10 did not appear in the original version of the book because Goldacre was being sued for libel at the time; while its publication is vindication, one can imagine that others without Goldacre's tenacity and backing would have given up.|From Booklist|British doctor Goldacre is funny and blunt as he bashes journalists, nutritionists, homeopaths, politicians, and pharmaceutical companies—his favorite targets. Many supposed experts, he writes
Have 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, tell what they should be paying attention to and what's, well, just more bullshit?
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