Състояние: Много добро
Забележка: Нечетена книга.
Издателство: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Град на издаване: London
Наличност: singular
Ширина (мм): 130
Височина (мм): 195
Корици: Меки

About the Book

Ben Goldacre’s wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations.

Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this eye-opening book he takes on the MMR hoax and misleading cosmetics ads, acupuncture and homeopathy, vitamins and mankind’s vexed relationship with all manner of toxins’. Along the way, the self-confessed Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General’ performs a successful detox on a Barbie doll, sees his dead cat become a certified nutritionist and probes the supposed medical qualifications of Dr’ Gillian McKeith.

Full spleen and satire, Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and ultimately alarming journey through the bad science we are fed daily by hacks and quacks.

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Critical Praise

‘From an expert with a mail-order PhD to debunking the myths of homeopathy, Ben Goldacre talking the reader through some notable cases and shows how to you don’t need a science degree to spot bad science yourself. ’ Independent (Book of the Year)

‘His book aims to teach us better, in the hope that one day we write less nonsense. ’ Daily Telegraph (Book of the Year)

‘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. ’ Trevor Philips, Observer (Book of the Year)

‘Unmissable…laying about himself in a froth of entirely justified indignation, Goldacre slams the mountebanks and bullshitters who misuse science. Few escape: drug companies, self-styled nutritionists, deluded researchers and journalists all get thoroughly duffed up. It is enormously enjoyable. ’ The Times (Book of the Year) —
Product Details

ISBN: 9780007284870
ISBN 10: 000728487X
Imprint: Harper Perennial
On Sale: 02/04/2009
Format: Paperback
Trimsize: 13.000
Pages: 288