Bad science quacks, hacks, and big pharma flacks
While exposing quack doctors and nutritionists, bogus credentialing programs, and biased scientific studies, the author takes the media to task for its willingness to throw facts and proof out the window in its quest to sell more copies. He also teaches you how to evaluate placebo effects, double-bl...
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New York :
Faber and Faber,
c2010.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Bad science : |b quacks, hacks, and big pharma flacks / |c Ben Goldacre. |
| 250 | |a 1st American ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Faber and Faber, |c c2010. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 288 p. : |b ill. ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Originally published: London : Fourth Estate, 2008. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a While exposing quack doctors and nutritionists, bogus credentialing programs, and biased scientific studies, the author takes the media to task for its willingness to throw facts and proof out the window in its quest to sell more copies. He also teaches you how to evaluate placebo effects, double-blind studies, and sample size, so that you can recognize bad science when you see it. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Errors, Scientific. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Pseudoscience. | |
| 690 | 0 | |a Hays, Sara Light tribute. | |
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