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Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

Paperback • 2010 • English

Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

By Ben Goldacre

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About the book

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? Ben Goldacre has made a point of exposing quack doctors an...Show more

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ISBN

9780865479180

Publisher

FABER FABER

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

Format

Paperback

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