A review by angus_mckeogh
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

4.0

Great book by a medical doctor and science journalist on the problems with quacks, misinformation, and big pharma in his profession. A big section on homeopathy which doesn’t hold much of a stake in the American medical establishment thankfully. A lot about how to read, interpret, and critique scientific journal articles. Statistics. And then another huge section on the MMR vaccine scare, the media’s involvement, and of course the dearth (3 papers all with Wakefield as an author- the main paper having 12 subjects in the “experiment” and the other two papers having demonstrable and false information) of evidence (and corruption) behind Wakefield’s claims and the overwhelming evidence demonstrating the safety of vaccines which of course received no coverage from the mainstream media. But of course the genie is out of the bottle at this point and the anti-vaccine groups in public cannot be shown they’re wrong. Also in this vein there was a history of anti-vaccine sentiment which was very interesting for anyone who believes all this nonsense started with MMR.