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Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
by Ben Goldacre
I won't read medical or science news stories uncritically again after reading this book.
I almost abandoned this book in the middle because I started to feel the author was telling me the same thing over and over--"I get it!" I wanted to say--but I kept with it. The last few chapters picked up, and the final section on MMR vaccines was worth reading through the slower parts.
There's a passage in one of the middle chapters that mentions the problem of relying on hunches or feelings instead of data. I couldn't help but think about all the fervor over Nate Silver's predictions for the election being more accurate than so many pundits. Nate Silver made his predictions using data whereas several pundits have admitted they didn't.
I almost abandoned this book in the middle because I started to feel the author was telling me the same thing over and over--"I get it!" I wanted to say--but I kept with it. The last few chapters picked up, and the final section on MMR vaccines was worth reading through the slower parts.
There's a passage in one of the middle chapters that mentions the problem of relying on hunches or feelings instead of data. I couldn't help but think about all the fervor over Nate Silver's predictions for the election being more accurate than so many pundits. Nate Silver made his predictions using data whereas several pundits have admitted they didn't.