I Think Youll Find Its a Bit More Complicated Than That

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The very best journalism from one of Britains most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma.
In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In Bad Pharma, he put the $600 billion global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. Now the pick of the journalism by one of our wittiiest, most indignant and most fearless commentators on the worlds of medicine and science is collected in one volume.

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In a busy world where most of us believe what were told, the science writer Goldacre looks behind the quackery. Science is squabble, he says: he uses close critical appraisal to show that many medical claims are akin to magic and that television presents real science as cheap stage effects. And dont even get him started on bad academia, biased government and credulous media. In short, everything you take at face value is wrong. Maybe even this review: now read Ben. The Times

Witty and snarky and made me laugh out loud Independent on Sunday

An accessible and amusing rant on science and society Monocle

From the reviews of Bad Science:

For sheer savagery, the illusion-destroying, joyous attack on the self-regarding, know-nothing orthodoxies of the modern middle classes, Bad Science can not be beaten. Youll laugh your head off, then throw all those expensive health foods in the bin. Trevor Philips, Observer (Book of the Year)

Unmissablelaying about himself in a froth of entirely justified indignation, Goldacre slams the mountebanks and bullshitters who misuse science. Few escape: drug companies, self-styled nutritionists, deluded researchers and journalists all get thoroughly duffed up. It is enormously enjoyable. The Times (Book of the Year)

From the reviews of Bad Pharma:

This is a book to make you enraged properly, bone-shakingly furiousA work of brilliance. Daily Telegraph

An important book. Ben Goldacre is angry, and by the time you put Bad Pharma down, you should be too. New Statesman

A book that deserves to be widely read, because anyone who does read it cannot help feeling both uncomfortable and angry. Economist

Author Bio

Ben Goldacre is a doctor and science writer who wrote the 'Bad Science' column in the Guardian from 2003 to 2011. His work focuses on unpicking the evidence behind misleading claims from journalists, the pharmaceutical industry, alternative therapists, and government reports. He has made a number of documentaries for BBC Radio 4, and his first book Bad Science reached Number One in the nonfiction charts, has sold 400,000 copies, and has been translated into 17 languages. His second bestselling book, Bad Pharma, was published in 2013.