Bad Science (Record no. 294954)
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| fixed length control field | 02365nam a2200157Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780007326761 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 500 GOL-B .PS |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ben Goldacre |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Bad Science |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Harper Perennial |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2009 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 370p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Matter -- Brain gym -- The progenium XY complex -- Homeopathy -- The placebo effect -- The nonsense du jour -- Dr Gillian McKeith PhD -- 'Pill solves complex social problem' -- Professor Patrick Holdford -- The doctor will sue you now -- Is mainstream medicine evil? -- How the media promote the public misunderstanding of science -- Why clever people believe stupid things -- Bad stats -- Health scares -- The media's MMR hoax. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Guardian columnist Dr Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the bad science we're fed by the worst of the hacks and the quacks... When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an 'Aqua Detox' footbath, releasing her toxins into the water and turning it brown, he thought he'd try the same at home. 'Like some kind of Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General', using his girlfriend's Barbie doll, he gently passed an electrical current through the warm salt water. It turned brown. In his words: 'before my very eyes, the world's first Detox Barbie was sat, with her feet in a pool of brown sludge, purged of a weekend's immorality.' Dr Ben Goldacre is the author of the 'Bad Science' column in the Guardian and his book is about all the 'bad science' we are constantly bombarded with in the media and in advertising. At a time when science is used to prove everything and nothing, everyone has their own 'bad science' moments - from the useless pie-chart on the back of cereal packets to the use of the word 'visibly' in cosmetics ads. This book will help people to quantify their instincts - that a lot of the so-called 'science' which appears in the media and in advertising is just wrong or misleading. Satirical and amusing - and unafraid to expose the ridiculous - it provides the reader with the facts they need to differentiate the good from the bad. Full of spleen, this is a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of 'bad science'. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Errors, Scientific -- Popular works. Science -- Popular works. sciences. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Processing Center | 01/09/2015 | 500 GOL-B .PS | DCB1614 | 01/09/2015 | 19/07/2019 | Book |