Bad science reached number one in the nonfiction charts, sold over 400,000 copies in the uk alone, and has been translated into 25 languages. I just finished reading bad science by ben goldacre, and its the most important book ive read in a long time. Bad science is a book by ben goldacre, criticising mainstream media reporting on health and science issues. We also have ben goldacre s book, bad science, and he has a website, bad science. He also shows us the fascinating story of how we know what we know, and gives us the tools to uncover bad science for ourselves. Epidemiology is the science of how we know in the real world if something is good for you or bad. But i have a memory that he then set about doing laboratory research and found it harder than hed thought.
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