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Bad Science is a novel by Ben Goldacre

Bad Science describes how evidence-based medicine works and how homeopathy fails to meet these criteria.

Bad Science was criticizing the mainstream media’s coverage of health and scientific problems.

The Bad Science fourth Estate published it in September 2008. The British Medical Journal and the Daily Telegraph both gave it excellent reviews, and it has climbed to the top of Amazon Books’ bestseller list. It was nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2009. Goldacre’s column in The Guardian and his website are both titled Bad Science or bad science.

Detoxification is an alternative medicine phenomenon. He looks at three alleged detox therapies disproven with simple scientific tests and utilizes this to illustrate some science fundamentals.

Brain Gym is a series of exercises and games designed to “improve the whole-brain learning experience.” Brain Gym was supported by the Department of Education when Goldacre’s book was produced, and it was utilized in hundreds of state schools across the country. With a combination of gibberish and reasonable concepts, Goldacre rejects the program’s assertions as pseudoscience.

It’s an attempt, he says, to ‘proprietorialize’ common sense, i.e., turning it into something that you can patent, own, sell, and make a profit from. He also provides data that if an answer seems scientific, people are more inclined to trust it.

Cosmetics. Expensive anti-wrinkle creams, according to Goldacre, typically include an intricate combination of ingredients that do not affect the product’s function. Only a few substances, such as vaseline and vegetable proteins, can successfully eliminate wrinkles without causing undesirable side effects.

This is problematic since the target audience for this questionable worldview is young women, a demographic underrepresented in science.

Homeopathy is a character of alternative remedy based on the idea that “like heals like” and that very high dilutions help the therapy work better. While Goldacre points out “conceptual flaws” in theory, his central point is that it does not work in the end. He describes how evidence-based medicine works and how homeopathy fails to meet these criteria.

This article is curated by Prittle Prattle News.

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