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Bad science has the power to change the world for the better, if people would read it carefully and with an open mind. Ben goldacre is a doctor, writer, broadcaster and academic who specialises in unpicking dodgy scientific claims from drug companies, newspapers, government reports, pr people and quacks. Battling bad science so im a uh doctor, but i kind of slipped sideways into research, and now im an epidemiologist. Ben goldacre is a british science writer and psychiatrist, born in 1974. For his second he has his sights trained on the pharmaceutical industry. In bad science, ben goldacre describes the brain gym as a vast empire of pseudoscience that tells children that if they wiggle their head up and down it will increase the blood flow to the frontal lobes, thus improving concentration. You will look from the pdf that your tape chosen is absolutely right. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 338 pages and is available in paperback format. Read the soft copy of this book anytime, anywhere and download it for free. About is a free web service that delivers books in pdf format to all the users without any restrictions. 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. Channel 4 reported that a study in the lancet showed a new drug had reduced the symptoms of duchennes muscular dystrophy. We also have ben goldacre s book, bad science, and he has a website, bad science. At first i didnt want to read this book or, rather, to listen the audiobook and the reason was i thought it was explainin how science is bad.
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