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|title=Bad Science
|author=Ben Goldacre
|buy= Yes
|borrow= Yes
|pages=288
|publisher=Harper Perennial
|date=April 2009
|isbn=978-0007284870
|amazonukwebsite=http://www.badscience.net/|cover=000728487X|aznuk=<amazonuk>000728487X</amazonuk> |amazonusaznus=<amazonus>0007240198</amazonus>
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Bad science is everywhere. People buy more expensive brand name aspirin than an equal dose in a different packet. Cosmetic adverts are peppered with pseudoscientific breakthroughs and ostensibly positive statistics. Newspapers and TV news (and sadly not just the tabloids) are riddled with scare stories of cannabis being 25 times stronger, or miracle cures that will make everyone and everything fit and healthy immediately. Ben Goldacre (NHS doctor and [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/series/badscience Guardian columnist]) cuts through the bullshit and gives people the tools to spot such nonsense for themselves.
As a nutritionist (in the Spartacus sense) I wholeheartedly recommend you buy ''Bad Science'', read it, and lend it to everyone you know with even half a brain. Even one little dose of it will change your life for the better.
If you loved ''Bad Science'', [[The Tiger that Isn't by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot|The Tiger That Isn't]] by [[:Category:Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot|Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot]] and [[How to Read a Novel by John Sutherland|How to Read a Novel]] by [[:Category:John Sutherland|John Sutherland]] do the same for maths and reading as ''Bad Science'' does for science. Although it's not been reviewed by Bookbag, [[''The Road to Wellville '' by T Coraghessan Boyle]] is a highly-recommended and hilarious look at early 20th century quackery.
Addendum: An additional chapter has been added to the paperback version. It can be read in full at [http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/ Badscience.net].
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