The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting Through the Hype about Your Health
by:
Robert Davis (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780520933231 (0520933230)
Publish date: May 2nd 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 254
Edition language: English
I always enjoy a thorough debunking, and this book's got plenty. Sunscreen? Not so fast! Throw statins at your high cholesterol? Not so fast. But more than debunking via solid science, this book is about critical thinking and research skills, and about how humans are biased to believe opinions prese...
I'm so used to health related nonsense, I figured this would be mostly fluff. Instead it's a fluff expose, and far more honest and rigorous than I expected. Reading it is a great exercise in learning how to think critically about what you see and read in the media; it also includes links to trustwor...
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