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Samuel Johnson Prize 2009 (6 items)
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Published 14 years, 9 months ago

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Description: Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations. Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this eye-opening book he takes on the MMR hoax and misleading cosmetics ads, acupuncture and homeopathy, vitamins and mankind's vexed relationship with all manner of 'toxins'. Along the way, the self-confessed 'Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General' performs a successful detox on a Barbie doll, sees his dead cat become a certified nutriti ... (more)

Manufacturer: Fourth Estate (GB)
Release date: 1 April 2009
ISBN-10 : 000728487X | ISBN-13: 9780007284870

Tags: Journalism (2), Science (2), Media (1), Medicine (1), Alternative Medicine (1), Bought 2009 (1)

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