Bad Science

Like a lot of books of this genre, it could have been a fraction of the size and still got its points across.

For example homeopathy is pure quackery, people involved are, unsurprisingly, not interested in fair trials, since their livelihood depends on it. That's about it, but he manages to pad this out to nearly 40 pages.

For most chapters you will get his point after the first few pages, but you'll have to endure page after page after page of examples.

He writes with a kind of incredulity that people don't tell the truth, that pharma companies fudge trials, that the media perpetuates lies. They all make a living by doing this, so I'm not remotely incredulous.

I read this in 2022, so debunking Gillian McKeith was something I'm not really interested in.

I'm amongst the pages of fluff, he talks about some interesting topics. I think the placebo effect is fascinating and so does he.

It's not a bad book, overly wordy and a bit dated.