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100			_aGoldacre, Ben _eauthor. _9811450
245			_aBad Science
260			_aIreland: _bFourth Estate, _c2009.
300			_axiii, 370p. _b: ill. _c; 20 cm.
500			_aIncludes notes, index and further reading
520			_aHow do we know if a treatment works, or if something causes cancer? Can the claims of homeopaths ever be as true—or as interesting—as the improbable research into the placebo effect? Who created the MMR hoax? Do journalists understand science? Why do we seek scientific explanations for social, personal and political problems? Are alternative therapists and the pharmaceutical companies really so different, or do they just use the same old tricks to sell different types of pill? 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, via multiple health scares and miracle cures, to the million-pound trial that Durham Council now denies ever existed—we are constantly bombarded with inaccurate, contradictory and sometimes even misleading information. Until now. Ben Goldacre masterfully dismantles the dodgy 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.
650			_aScience—Misuse _vPseudoscience _xMedical misconceptions _9811451
650			_aScience and the press _vQuackery _xEvidence-based medicine _9811452
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