Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

This is a book that deserves to be widely read, because it presents important issues in a way that is easily understood - but does not neglect significant details.To read it as a simple skewering of alternative medicine (chiefly "nutitionists" and the supplement industry), Big Pharma, and newspapers - although it is that - is to underrate it.More importantly it is about the importance of evidence - and how to understand it. It is about bad thinking - and deceptive presentations, used by those who would convince us. These topics are of general relevance - and of obvious importance to the issue of evolution versus creationism.The chosen examples are biased towards medicine and the British experience - because the author is a medical doctor, writing a weekly column for a British newspaper. (The column is also published on the internet - Bad Science). But this fact does little to diminish the value of the book to foreign readers. The underlying points affect us all.

I thought I'd revive this thread just to let people know that Bad Science has now been published in the U.S. and Canada.