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Full of spleen, this will be a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of <i>Bad Science</i>. When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an 'Aqua Detox' footbath, releasing her toxins into the water, turning it brown, he thought he'd try the same at home. 'Like some kind of Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General', using his girlfriend's Barbie doll, he gently passed an electrical current through the warm salt water. It turned brown. In his words: 'before my very eyes, the world's first Detox Barbie was sat, with her feet in a pool of brown sludge, purged of a weekend's immorality.' Dr Ben Goldacre is the author of the Bad Science column in the Guardian. This book will be about all the 'bad science' we are constantly bombarded with in the media and in advertising. At a time when science is used to prove everything and nothing, everyone has their own 'bad science' moments a?? from the useless pie-chart on the back of cereal packets to the use of the word 'visibly' in cosmetics ads. This book will help people to quantify their instincts a?? that a lot of the so-called 'science' which appears in the media and in advertising is just wrong or misleading. It will be satirical and amusing a?? exposing the ridiculous a?? but it will also provide the reader with the facts they need.

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Non-UK readers will find parts of it difficult to under...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Nov 11 15:54:23 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 17:21:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed May 13 02:31:47 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 02:18:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 15:07:02 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 15:13:52 -0700 2009
From miracle pills to exam results, Ben Goldacre dissects the s...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 09:06:01 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 13:00:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 00:34:25 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 13:04:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 5 false false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 07:12:15 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 09:35:31 -0700 2009 10-star book
Not available in the US as books that attack big Pharma, Alternative medicine gurus and sacred cows like the MMR-Autism viral myth get sued just to stop publication even if there is no hope of winning the suit. Not so in the UK! If you are interested in this, you can get it post-...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 15:38:58 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 04:06:01 -0700 2009
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This book aims to debunk some of the modern science myths which ha...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 29 10:21:53 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 08 12:51:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 20:06:15 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 17:37:33 -0800 2009
First, a caveat: Ben Goldacre, a British doctor and media critic, accuses journalists of bearing contempt for the sciences. It is a broad judgment that I don't think translate accurately to journalism in th...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jan 31 12:11:03 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 12:15:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 06:27:41 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 03:28:01 -0700 2009 Everyone!
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I didn't find this book hilariously funny, but I did find it highly readable, engaging, and...annoying. Not that Goldacre is annoying (except when he's telling me to examine my spe...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 21 18:25:04 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 09 15:36:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4605017