The release date for the English version of 'Bad Science' by
Ben Goldacre is Jan 2008. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
How can we determine the effectiveness of a therapy or what causes cancer? Will homeopathic claims ever measure up to the unlikely study of the placebo effect, or even be as fascinating? The MMR hoax was made by whom? Do journalists have a scientific background? Why do we go to science to find answers to our political, social, and personal issues? Do pharmaceutical firms and alternative therapists truly work so differently, or are they merely marketing various kinds of pills with the same old ploys?
Our obsession is with our well-being. And yet we are incessantly inundated with false, contradicting and sometimes even misleading information, from the media's "world-expert microbiologist" with a mail-order Ph.D. in his garden shed laboratory, through numerous health scares and miraculous cures, to the million-pound trial that Durham Council now denies ever occurring. Right now.
In addition to expertly dissecting the dubious science underlying some of the most notable drug trials, court cases, and lost opportunities of our time, Ben Goldacre goes above and beyond by illuminating the intriguing narrative of how we came to know certain conclusions and providing us with the resources to independently unearth dubious science.