Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780007240197
ISBN: 0007240198
Label: Fourth Estate Ltd
Manufacturer: Fourth Estate Ltd
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: September 01, 2008
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
Studio: Fourth Estate Ltd

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Rating: - Outstanding, and the ideal companion is.....
Great book. The case is made with exemplary clarity and wit. Rather than repeat what others have said more than adequately, let me simply recommend, as dessert, Jamie Whyte's "Bad Thoughts". This holds to flawed logic the same mirror Ben Goldacre holds to bad science.

With both volumes digested, nearly every press story I read triggers in my head the solitary thought of Douglas Adams' ill-fated bowl of petunias: "Oh no - not again!".

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Rating: - Frightening and compulsory read
Best read I have had for a good few months.

I got hold of a copy of the book during Christmas and finished it within 3 days. Coming from a science background, I can only say that I cannot treat the misinformation, manipulation and exploitation by the media and pharmcueticals described by Dr. Goldacre as 'light-hearted science'. Some of those things he mentioned regarding statistical methods and reporting are common problems for any science research, albeit not always used by companies ... Read More

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Rating: - the appliance of science
Following on from his Guardian column of the same name Ben Goldacre, a doctor and journalist, has published Bad Science, where he attempts to engage us in the science that we are all subjected to and persuaded by on an almost daily basis. He is not a happy man. Not so much because people get things wrong, or portray them inaccurately but because the science behind it isn't really that complex. In fact the revelation of this book is not so much that he lays into some soft targets like Gillian McKeith ... Read More

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Rating: - One of the best books I've read for a whole
I found this book interesting, informative and a little scary. Ben Goldacre's calm, patient list of the crimes against science and by extension humanity perpetuated by the alternative medicine and pharmacological industries, as well as the media's own aptitude for distorting the view of science in the popular eye, is a gripping, sometimes funny, often terrifying read. Strongly recommend this book.

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Rating: - Very important antidote to media science scare mongering...
This book (even with its somewhat over the top style) is extremely important, and should be given to all the people you know. It demonstrates very well how much of the science that we glean through our newspapers is at best simply wrong and at worst a gross distortion of the facts (OK, lies). [Real] Dr. Goldacre's book ranges from the MRSA and MMR "scandals" (which on closer inspection appear to be nothing of the sort), through the dubious (and to some extent, hilarious) PR methods of the nutritionists ... Read More

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