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A review by thorkell
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
5.0
Have you often wondered if you can trust news articles about health and medicine? Or new miracle medicines/live style choices which are supposed to fix everything? Then "Bad Science" is a book for you. Bad Science is a brilliant book that shows that scientists are not constantly contradicting each other but rather that newspapers are selling lies as news. The book also deals with nutritional science and how unscientific most of what they say is. The book is written by a doctor and gives the reader tools to validate the endless ridiculous new "scientific breakthroughs". A brilliant book!
I also recommend "Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients" by same author. It is a really scary book which shows how the pharmaceutical industry constantly lies, cheats, misrepresents and lobbies to make more money. They sell new drugs that are worse than the ones we already have but make it look like they are better. This does not only harm patients but has often lead to their death. If there is one thing I have learned from this book it is that one should be skeptical of new medicines. Many of them are way worse than what was discovered 60 years ago.
I also recommend "Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients" by same author. It is a really scary book which shows how the pharmaceutical industry constantly lies, cheats, misrepresents and lobbies to make more money. They sell new drugs that are worse than the ones we already have but make it look like they are better. This does not only harm patients but has often lead to their death. If there is one thing I have learned from this book it is that one should be skeptical of new medicines. Many of them are way worse than what was discovered 60 years ago.