Bad Science

Bad Science

By
Ben Goldacre
Ben Goldacre
2008 • 354 pages

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65 books

Building A Better World

Indyrey
Indy
Outliers: The Story of Success
Surviving the Extremes
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Life of Pi

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103 books

Critical Thinking

MBonus
PB
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide
The Irrational Ape
The Four Horsemen: The Discussion That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
Logically Fallacious
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong

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10 books

2023 List

nikvi
Nikki Vinayan
The Island at the Center of the World
Creation
The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework
Bad Science
It Didn't Start with You How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

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104 books

Non Fiction

timnog
Lisa
Merle's door
The Waste Land, and Other Poems
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Zoo story

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20 books

Medical

timnog
Lisa
The Cobra Event
Justinian's Flea
An American Plague
The Giving Plague
The Andromeda Strain
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London

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75 books

Calibre

LazyZog
Zoe
Stand Up for Autism: A Boy, a Dog, and a Prescription for Laughter
A Sense of the World
Running Blind: An Alternative View of the London Marathon
Making It Happen

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85 books

Non Fiction

zaloper
Gonzalo
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
In A Sunburned Country
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Unweaving the Rainbow
Consciousness Explained
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

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43 books

Science

Iain
Iain Bertram
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Subtle is the Lord
Inward bound
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Bad Science

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0 books

Owned

o5wyhslm
o5wyhslm
All Our Shimmering Skies
Black Tide
Carpentaria
Grave Peril
Catch-22

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27 books

Science And Technology

djgreedo
DJ Allan
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That
Why Does E=mc2?
Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You
The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

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283 books

Science

starthistle1
Steven Rongley
Domesticated
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Privileged Planet : How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution

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36 books

Non Fiction

Ryan4Eyes
Ryan
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media
Language Myths
Gangs
Bad Science

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68 books

Year 2009

Ryan4Eyes
Ryan
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
The Magic Toyshop
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
The Music of Chance
Ender's Game
The Locked Room (The New York Trilogy, #3)
Truth and Bright Water

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72 books

Year 2011

BetoM
Beto
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
John Dies at the End
Black Powder War
Treasure Island
Before They Are Hanged
Massive
Last Argument of Kings

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40 books

Science

CountZero
Count_ZeroSupporter
The Hidden Reality
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
The Black Hole War
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Hyperspace

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180 books

Non Fiction Blend

Apeiron
Alina
The Wright Brothers
Transforming The Global Biosphere: Twelve Futuristic Strategies
The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture
Book, that doesn't exist
Against Creativity

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33 books

Non Fiction

Tadhg
Tadhg
Into the Wild
You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News
Bad Science
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
The Man Who Cycled the Americas
'O': The Intimate History of the Orgasm
The Etymologicon

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3 books

Science

Tadhg
Tadhg
Bad Science
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ

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417 books

High Priority

Volenord
Volenord
Deep Learning
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Programming the Universe
Energy and Civilization: A History
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Selfish Gene

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264 books

Non Fiction Explorative

Indyrey
Indy
Leadership and the new science
Stories: How Mennonites Came to Be
What is an Anabaptist Christian?
Blind Spots
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
The Naked Anabaptist: The Bare Essentials of a Radical Faith

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0 books

Owned

WandaTinasky
Sean
The third policeman
The God of Small Things
Bad Science
Fahrenheit 451
Wolf Hall
Jews Don't Count
Treacle Walker

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582 books

Hit

boson
Boson
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction
Elements of Electromagnetics
Cook's Illustrated Baking Book: Baking Demystified with 450 Foolproof Recipes from America's Most Trusted Food Magazine
The Decipherment of Linear B
The Mathematical Theory of Communication

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101 books

Mine

chigh
Clair High
Ancestor
Seed to Harvest
2001: A Space Odyssey
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Mr. Pine's purple house

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175 books

Owned

Aetherson
JamesSupporter
Snuff
Bookbinding
Hearts in Atlantis
The Mirror of Her Dreams
Charlie the Choo-Choo
Dark One: Forgotten

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14 books

Rohan Joshi Recs

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anulekha
Bad Science
Everybody Lies
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Masala Lab
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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