Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
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Author: Ben Goldacre
Title: Bad Science
Narrated by: Rupert Farley
Publication Date: 1 Jan 2010
Publisher: Whole Story
Language: English
File Format: Mp3 46 kbps
Duration: 12 CDs x 1 hour each
Description
Ben GoldacreΓÇÖs 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 mankindΓÇÖs vexed relationship with all manner of ΓÇÿtoxinsΓÇÖ. Along the way, the self-confessed ΓÇÿJohnny Ball cum Witchfinder GeneralΓÇÖ performs a successful detox on a Barbie doll, sees his dead cat become a certified nutritionist and probes the supposed medical qualifications of ΓÇÿDrΓÇÖ 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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About the Author
Ben Michael Goldacre (born 1974) is a British physician, academic and science writer. As of 2012 he is Wellcome research fellow in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Goldacre is known in particular for his "Bad Science" column in The Guardian, and is the author of two books, Bad Science (2008), a critique of irrationality and certain forms of alternative medicine, and Bad Pharma (2012), an examination of the pharmaceutical industry, its publishing and marketing practices, and its relationship with the medical profession.
