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Bad Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 45,472 ratings — published 2008
We Have Always Been Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as bad-science)
avg rating 3.50 — 2,880 ratings — published 2021
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bad-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,392 ratings — published 1995
Daisy's Run (The Clockwork Chimera, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bad-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,139 ratings — published 2018
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bad-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,037,406 ratings — published 2012
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bad-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,011,159 ratings — published 1818
Detour (Detour, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,982 ratings — published 2026
Operation Bounce House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 43,029 ratings — published 2026
Half-Breed (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.27 — 37 ratings — published
Europa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,474 ratings — published 2025
Tales from the Couch: A Clinical Psychologist's True Stories of Psychopathology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,108 ratings — published 2015
Warrior Race (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.47 — 113 ratings — published 1952
Fresh Dirt From the Grave (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,520 ratings — published 2020
Mind the Science: Saving your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 267 ratings — published 2024
Congo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.64 — 181,590 ratings — published 1980
Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 310 ratings — published 2010
Ship Wrecked (Ship Wrecked #1)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,112 ratings — published
The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 39,910 ratings — published
The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 191 ratings — published 2015
The Scientist's Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 343 ratings — published 2016
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 23,129 ratings — published 2015
Research Methods in Psychology: Evaluating a World of Information (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.72 — 360 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 619,020 ratings — published 2011
How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-based Medicine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 387 ratings — published 1999
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 223,290 ratings — published 2024
How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.65 — 870 ratings — published 2020
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,009 ratings — published 2017
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 290,910 ratings — published 2018
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,542 ratings — published 2018
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,658,480 ratings — published 2012
Go Big or Go Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,053 ratings — published 2008
Thirteen Rising (Zodiac, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,489 ratings — published 2017
Delta Green: The Way It Went Down Vol. 2 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 60 ratings — published 2023
Uranus (Outer Planets Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.22 — 386 ratings — published
Nellie and the Nanites: Book One (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.44 — 43 ratings — published
An Affinity for Formaldehyde (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.51 — 74 ratings — published
The Politics of the Family and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 237 ratings — published 1969
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
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avg rating 4.39 — 183,641 ratings — published 2012
Deception Point (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.77 — 711,163 ratings — published 2001
The Secrets of the Self: A Philosophical Poem 1944 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 327 ratings — published 1915
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.62 — 2,203 ratings — published 2013
Girl in Ice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 7,498 ratings — published 2022
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,549 ratings — published 2020
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,839 ratings — published 2022
OMD: The Simple, Plant-Based Program to Save Your Health, Save Your Waistline, and Save the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.78 — 202 ratings — published 2018
The Sauropod Dinosaurs (Life in the Age of Giants)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.62 — 48 ratings — published
Reparation of Sin (The Society #2)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,797 ratings — published 2021
Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,680 ratings — published 2021
“It may be easier to believe that we remain lean because we're virtuous and we get fat because we're not, but the evidence simply says otherwise. Virtue has little more to with our weight than our height. When we grow taller, it's hormones and enzymes that are promoting growth, and we consume more calories than we expend as a result. Growth is the cause - increased appetite and decreased energy expenditure (gluttony and sloth) are the effects. When we grow fatter, the same is true as well.
We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because were fat.”
― Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because were fat.”
― Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
“...Why is it, that from the moment you enter medical school to the moment you retire, that the only disorder you will ever diagnosis with a physics book - is obesity? This is biology folks, it's endocrinology, it's physiology - physics has nothing to do with it. The law of thermodynamics is always true, [but] the energy balance equation is irrelevant...”
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