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Scorecard
Historical Rigor
4.5
Nuance & Depth
4.5
Perspective Shift
5.0
Readability
4.8
About This Book
A practicing physician's furious, funny, and essential toolkit for recognising how health claims are manufactured, distorted, and sold — in alternative medicine, nutritionism journalism, and pharmaceutical research alike.
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Zone
Big Ideas & Context
Core Value
Understanding how bad science is made, marketed, and sold — and acquiring the minimum viable toolkit for evaluating health claims in the media, the supplement industry, and pharmaceutical research
Who It's For
Everyone — this is the book with the broadest practical applicability in the Zone 2 library; anyone who regularly encounters health claims in media, conversation, or marketing
Emotional Weight
Moderate — the anger is real and documented, but the tone is more invigorating than distressing; Goldacre is funny, which helps
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