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Quacks, hacks, and big pharma flacks by ben goldacre. We support almost all bestselling books on our website. He is a founder of the alltrials campaign and opentrials to require open science practices in clinical trials. Author ben goldacre exposes the epidemic of pseudoscience and gives listeners the tools they need to distinguish good.
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This work is licenced under the creative commons attributionnoncommercialno derivative works 3. Dr ben goldacre is the author of the bad science column in the guardian and his book is about all the bad science we are constantly bombarded with in the media and in advertising. The main characters of this science, non fiction story are. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 338 pages and is available in paperback format. Ben goldacre is a doctor who writes a weekly column in the guardian exposing bad medicine. Understanding what counts as evidence should therefore trump memorizing the. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading bad science.
Bad pharma 4th estate, is my book about the misuse of evidence by the pharmaceutical industry, especially the way that negative trial data goes missing. Pdf on dec 1, 2009, wieland gevers and others published bad science find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. In some sense this book is more about the importance of. The first edition of the novel was published in 2008, and was written by ben goldacre. He is the author of the guardian newspapers weekly bad science column and a book of the same title, published by fourth estate in september 2008. There are still snakeoil merchants flogging us miracle cures, nostrums,herbal remedies and spurious nutrional theory the only changes since time immemorial have been the socalled sophistication in supporting the claims. As of march 2015, he is a senior clinical research fellow at the centre for evidencebased medicine, part of the university of oxford s nuffield department of primary care health sciences.
Doctor and epidemiologist ben goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted, from the blindingly obvious nutrition claims to the very subtle tricks of the pharmaceutical. Read the soft copy of this book anytime, anywhere and download it for free. Ben goldacre is a medical doctor, writer and research fellow at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. Ben goldacre is the author of the popular guardian column, bad science. Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol consumption.
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