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Ben goldacres wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the samuel johnson prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering. Read bad science by ben goldacre available from rakuten kobo. This work is licenced under the creative commons attributionnoncommercialno derivative works 3. Bad science by ben goldacre paperback harpercollins. He is the author of the guardian newspapers weekly bad science column and a book of the same title, published by.
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