Description |
xxii, 474 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents |
The glorious mess of real scientific results -- Neuro-realism -- The Stigma Gene -- Guns don't kill people, puppies do -- Datamining for terrorists would be lovely if it worked -- Benford's Law: using stats to bust an entire nation for naughtiness -- Sampling error, the unspoken issue behind small number changes in the news -- Scientific proof that we live in a warmer and more caring universe -- There's something magical about watching patterns emerge from data -- Beau Funnel -- When journalists do primary research -- Bicycle helmets and the law -- Medical hypotheses fails the Aids Test -- Andrew Lansley and his imaginary evidence -- Minority retort -- Who's holding the smoking gun on bioresonance? -- Aids denialism at the Spectator -- Archie Cochrane: 'Fascist' -- The Golden Arse-Beam Method -- Roger Coghill and the Aids Test -- Artificial Intransigence |
Summary |
The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma. In 'Bad Science', Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In 'Bad Pharma', he put the $600 billion global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. Now the pick of the journalism by one of our wittiiest, most indignant and most fearless commentators on the worlds of medicine and science is collected in one volume |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-458) and index |
Subject |
Science -- Popular works.
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Medicine, Popular.
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ISBN |
9780007462483 (paperback) |
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0007462484 (paperback) |
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