Bad Science – Ben Goldacre.
Altnation regulars will likely be aware of at least the existence of Goldacres' blog
Bad Science in which pseudoscience and quackery are exposed given the amount of threads Les posts to it. I don't know how many of you follow the links but I hope its a lot.
Well, now he has released a book on the subject. It seems to be a compendium of the “best of bad science” in one way and a guide to spotting pseudoscience in another. In its first guise it is an entertaining, if sometimes troubling, read and lets us all have a chuckle at how GCSE level science is spun out into ridiculous and unverifiable claims. Sometimes it's troubling to realise how gullible other people can be, and at other times it's troubling to realise how gullible you yourself have been. Yet no matter how gullible you or other people appear to have been Goldacre seems to be as far from the scolding science...
