Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

Ben Goldacre is the very outspoken mouthpiece against really rubbish claims made by modern medicine or television charlatans. He is a medical doctor and journalist with a column in the Guardian newspaper with an uncanny bullsh*t detector second to none. I can’t remember when I first came across his ways of thinking but it must have been when I was looking for an answer to Gillian McKeith, a woman that makes my neck hair stand on end, someone I find appalling to the n-th degree. Lately I have seen him voice his opinion on London’s 6 o’clock news regarding LBC’s Jenni Barnett and her rather ... more

Do you believe the doctor or the prescribed medicine works when he or she tells you ‘that it might get worse before it gets better’? Do you find yourself interested in the average Daily Mail headline? If so then you need to educate yourself and read this book! Dr Ben Goldacre is a doctor and science writer with a column in the Guardian newspaper and this book is his diatribe against the misuse of scientific experimentation, statistics and reporting. He sets out to de-bunk the nonsense that increasingly infiltrates modern life and succeeds in an often hilarious, always logical and intelligent ... more