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Addictive
This book is absolutely brilliant and I would recommend it to anybody even those with no scientific interests. The first few chapters in particular are brilliantly funny and his novel is a real eye-opener, criticizing the irrationality of anyone from homeopaths to the media. Although the chapters towards the end, detailing the big pharma, got a bit heavy the book was a thoroughly excellent read for the layperson and I think Goldacre succeeds in bringing a sense of rationality to the masses.
SUCH a good book
As an arts-grad journalist who often writes about medical matters, this book really made me squirm. Sadly, everything Goldacre says is true: the media do not know what they're talking about, and most people rubbish science because they find it too difficult to understand. Very funny, witty and irreverent - a must-read for anyone who ever put an ant-ageing cream on their face, or a homeopathic pill down the cat.
Essential reading 
This was a really great, unputdownable read without being great literature in any way. As a scientist myself, I was aware of the arguments, but had never realised how they needed to be used to address pseudo-science. Now I know! Today I binned my wife's fad foods - only a few boxes of the stuff, but I went and Google-Scholared the claims first, and showed her the results.
If I have a quibble, it is that it wasn't clear to me from the outset that the focus would be primarily on medical science. This is a quibble about the packaging rather than a criticism of the book itself, which should be essential reading for everyone who has those irrational fears that they are being poisoned - or who is still reading the health pages of national papers.
Bad Media = Bad Science
Great book, once you get past the first chapter, it really grips you and it is a real page-turner.
It can't be stressed enough that the majority of the science you read in the media is misleading: either deliberately or else by accident. Even the more reputable newspapers/TV channels fail us regularly. I'm a practicing scientist myself and yet I still fall into this trap, especially in areas that are outside my field of expertise.
This book teaches (or in my case re-teaches) you how to think like a scientist and apply this logic to any article that alleges fact.
Hopefully I won't fall for dodgy nutritional advice again.
Bad Science
This book is an absolute MUST READ!!
You may not (and probably won't) agree with a lot of the issues the author brings up, but it will definitely provoke some thoughts in your head.
If you thought you were clued up, think again! This book will teach you, if nothing else, to take life with a pinch of salt.
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