Ben Goldacre - Bad Science

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Author: Ben Goldacre
Title: Bad Science
Publication Date: 2 April 2009
Publisher: Harper Perennial 
Language: English
File Format: Pdf, Epub, Mobi

Description

Ben GoldacreΓÇÖs wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations.

Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this eye-opening book he takes on the MMR hoax and misleading cosmetics ads, acupuncture and homeopathy, vitamins and mankindΓÇÖs vexed relationship with all manner of ΓÇÿtoxinsΓÇÖ. Along the way, the self-confessed ΓÇÿJohnny Ball cum Witchfinder GeneralΓÇÖ performs a successful detox on a Barbie doll, sees his dead cat become a certified nutritionist and probes the supposed medical qualifications of ΓÇÿDrΓÇÖ Gillian McKeith.

Full spleen and satire, Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and ultimately alarming journey through the bad science we are fed daily by hacks and quacks.