by Ben Goldacre · Fourth Estate (GB) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007284870
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«Bad Science» is Ben Goldacre's popular science essay, published by Fourth Estate in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Ben Goldacre, a doctor and columnist at The Guardian, wittily analyses how advertising, the media and some supposed experts spread false or misinterpreted science. The book teaches readers to spot biased studies and understand concepts such as the placebo or double-blind trials, and reviews cases like homeopathy, acupuncture, vitamins or detox diets.
It was nominated in 2009 for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. The cover of this edition announces a new chapter.
For readers interested in popular science, scepticism and how to interpret information about health and medical studies.
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Ben Michael Goldacre is a British physician, academic and science writer. He is the first Bennett Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and director of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford. He is a founder of the AllTrials campaign and OpenTrials, aiming to require open science practices in clinical trials.
