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Bad Science

Author: Ben Goldacre
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771035764
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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 dismantles the questionable science behind some of the great drug trials, court cases, and missed opportunities of our time, but he also goes further: out of the bullshit, he shows us the fascinating story of how we know what we know, and gives us the tools to uncover bad science for ourselves.

Language: en
Pages: 304

Bad Science

Authors: Ben Goldacre

Categories: Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-12 - Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

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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

Language: en
Pages: 304

Bad Science

Authors: Ben Goldacre

Categories: Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-12 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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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

Language: en
Pages: 352

Bad Science

Authors: Ben Goldacre

Categories: Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-07 - Publisher: HarperCollins UK

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Ben 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.

Language: en
Pages: 264

Good Science, Bad Science, Pseudoscience, and Just Plain Bunk

Authors: Peter Daempfle

Categories: Education

Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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We are constantly bombarded with breaking scientific news in the media, but we are almost never provided with enough information to assess the truth of these claims. This book teaches readers how to think like a scientist to question claims like these more critically.

Language: en
Pages: 503

Bad Science

Authors: Gary Taubes

Categories: Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Random House Incorporated

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A science journalist brings to life one of the greatest scientific frauds of our times with the story of the two obscure researchers who claimed to have discovered a clean, no-fuss method for harnessing the energy of a hydrogen bomb. 20,000 first printing.

Language: en
Pages: 328

Autism's False Prophets

Authors: Paul A. Offit

Categories: Medical

Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-02 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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"With a new preface by the author"--Cover.

Language: en
Pages: 295

Tainted

Authors: Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Environmental Ethics and Scien

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Three-fourths of scientific research in the United States is funded by special interests. Many of these groups have specific practical goals, such as developing pharmaceuticals or establishing that a pollutant causes only minimal harm. Kristin Shrader-Frechette uses the analytical tools of classic philosophy of science to evaluate the conclusions of

Language: en
Pages: 480

Bad Pharma

Authors: Ben Goldacre

Categories: Business & Economics

Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-01 - Publisher: Macmillan

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Argues that doctors are deliberately misinformed by profit-seeking pharmaceutical companies that casually withhold information about drug efficacy and side effects, explaining the process of pharmaceutical data manipulation and its global consequences. By the best-selling author of Bad Science.

Language: en
Pages: 190

Climate Confusion

Authors: Roy W. Spencer

Categories: Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-12 - Publisher: Encounter Books

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The current frenzy over global warming has galvanized the public and cost taxpayers billons of dollars in federal expenditures for climate research. It has spawned Hollywood blockbusters and inspired major political movements. It has given a higher calling to celebrities and built a lucrative industry for scores of eager scientists.

Language: en
Pages: 138

Misreading Reading

Authors: Gerald Coles

Categories: Education

Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Greenwood

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Coles rejects the "skills-emphasis" approach to teaching early readers and learners, and leans toward a whole-language technique.