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Books by Ben Goldacre

Ben Goldacre is a British physician, academic, and science writer. Since 2015, he has been a senior clinical research fellow at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences in Oxford. A champion of open data, he is also the founder of Open Trials, “a collaborative open database of all available information on all clinical trials.” He is best known as the author of “Bad Science” and “Big Pharma.”

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Bad Science

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“Bad Science” by Ben Goldacre is a thorough critique of irrationality and pseudoscience. In addition to exposing certain forms of alternative medicine as marketing ploys, “Bad Science” also criticizes Big Pharma practices and mainstream media reports on science issues. Additionally, it also offers a peek into the faulty inner workings of our mind and the ways the scientific method is designed to correct them.

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