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• Title:Bad science : quacks, hacks, and big pharma flacks / Ben Goldacre.
  
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• Author/Creator:Goldacre, Ben.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Faber and Faber, 2010.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: Q172.5.E77 G65 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Errors, Scientific--Popular works.
  Pseudoscience--Popular works.
  
• Medical Subjects: Science--Popular Works.
  Quackery--Popular Works.
  
• Genre/Form:Popular works.
  
• Edition:1st American ed.
  
• Description:xii, 288 pages : ill ; 21 cm.
  
• Summary:While exposing quack doctors and nutritionists, bogus credentialing programs, and biased scientific studies, the author takes the media to task for its willingness to throw facts and proof out the window in its quest to sell more copies. He also teaches you how to evaluate placebo effects, double-blind studies, and sample size, so that you can recognize bad science when you see it.
  
• Notes:Originally published, in different form: London : Fourth Estate, 2008.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages [259-273) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780865479180 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
  0865479186 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Matter
  Brain gym
  The Progenium XY complex
  Homeopathy
  The Placebo Effect
  The nonsense du jour
  Nutritionists
  The doctor will sue you now
  Is mainstream medicine evil?
  Why clever people believe stupid things
  Bad stats
  The media's MMR hoax
  And another thing.