Goldacre, Ben. <br/><br/>
Bad science  
/ Ben Goldacre. 
 - Fourth Estate pbk. ed. 
 - London :  Fourth Estate,  2009. 
 - xiii, 370 pages :  illustrations (black and white) ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2008.  "Includes a brilliant, shocking and previously unpublishable new chapter"--p. 4 of cover. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-357) and index. 
<br/><br/> Ben Goldacre’s wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations.<br/><br/>Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this eye-opening book he takes on the MMR hoax and misleading cosmetics ads, acupuncture and homeopathy, vitamins and mankind’s vexed relationship with all manner of ‘toxins’. Along the way, the self-confessed ‘Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General’ performs a successful detox on a Barbie doll, sees his dead cat become a certified nutritionist and probes the supposed medical qualifications of ‘Dr’ Gillian McKeith.<br/><br/>Full spleen and satire, Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and ultimately alarming journey through the bad science we are fed daily by hacks and quacks. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780007284870 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA904018  bnb GBA904018  dnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014877335  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Errors, Scientific--Popular works<br/>Pseudoscience--Popular works
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Bibliography B1 Introduction to research 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q172.5.E77  / G65 2009