Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks - Rilegato

Goldacre, Ben

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ISBN 10: 0771035780 ISBN 13: 9780771035784

Casa editrice: McClelland & Stewart, 2010

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"For sheer savagery, the illusion-destroying, joyous attack on the self-regarding, know-nothing orthodoxies of the modern middle classes, Bad Science can not be beaten. You'll laugh your head off, then throw all those expensive health foods in the bin."
— The Observer (U.K.)

"One of the essential reads of the year." 
— New Scientist

"If you were to pick up just one non-fiction book this year, you'd do well to make it this one." 
— Daily Mail

"Thousands of books are enjoyable; many are enlightening; only a very few will ever rate as necessary to social health. This is one of them." 
— The Independent

"It should be on the national curriculum."
— Time Out (five stars)

L'autore:

BEN GOLDACRE is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and medical doctor who specialises in unpicking dodgy scientific claims made by scaremongering journalists, dodgy government reports, evil pharmaceutical corporations, PR companies, and quacks. He has written a weekly "Bad Science" column in the Guardian since 2003, and has made acclaimed documentaries for BBC Radio, including "The Placebo Effect" and "The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists." Trained in Oxford and London, with brief forays into academia, he is thirty-five and works full-time as a medical doctor in London.

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• Editore: McClelland & Stewart
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0771035780
• ISBN 13: 9780771035784
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304