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Freud: The Making of an Illusion
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3.90 avg rating — 328 ratings
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The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
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3.82 avg rating — 9,973 ratings
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The Hormone Myth: How Junk Science, Gender Politics, and Lies about PMS Keep Women Down
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3.74 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Doc Doc Zeus: A Novel of White Coat Crime
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3.44 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
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4.23 avg rating — 6,961 ratings
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Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
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4.31 avg rating — 665 ratings
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Quackery, the 20 Million Dollar Duck
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 55,629 ratings
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Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide
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4.19 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
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Snowball in a Blizzard: A Physician's Notes on Uncertainty in Medicine
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4.02 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Sharks Get Cancer, Mole Rats Don't: How Animals Could Hold the Key to Unlocking Cancer Immunity in Humans
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4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
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4.09 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
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Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science
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3.74 avg rating — 2,193 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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4.28 avg rating — 17,822 ratings
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The Thirteenth Step: Addiction in the Age of Brain Science
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4.10 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
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4.09 avg rating — 2,350 ratings
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This Book Won't Cure Your Cancer (Facing Brain Cancer 3)
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4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Immunity
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3.95 avg rating — 43 ratings
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White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine
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3.79 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Science of Mom: A Research-Based Guide to Your Baby's First Year
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4.37 avg rating — 1,183 ratings
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Monkeys, Myths, and Molecules: Separating Fact from Fiction, and the Science of Everyday Life
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3.65 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever
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3.95 avg rating — 1,403 ratings
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The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat
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3.45 avg rating — 850 ratings
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Psychology Gone Wrong: The Dark Sides of Science and Therapy
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4.32 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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4.04 avg rating — 44,999 ratings
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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4.49 avg rating — 217,268 ratings
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A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir for Truth and Finding Trouble
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4.12 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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4.01 avg rating — 8,359 ratings
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The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition
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3.78 avg rating — 325 ratings
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The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
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Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of US
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3.70 avg rating — 1,558 ratings
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
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4.16 avg rating — 3,978 ratings
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Is That a Fact?: Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life
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3.59 avg rating — 326 ratings
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All Natural: A Skeptic's Quest for Health and Happiness in an Age of Ecological Anxiety
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3.71 avg rating — 447 ratings
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The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work
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4.04 avg rating — 865 ratings
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The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
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3.93 avg rating — 536 ratings
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The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and What You Can Do About Them
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4.01 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
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4.02 avg rating — 3,289 ratings
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Medical Philosophy: Conceptual Issues In Medicine
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3.82 avg rating — 66 ratings
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In the Name of God: The True Story of the Fight to Save Children from Faith-Healing Homicide
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4.11 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Chiropractic Abuse: An Insider's Lament
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Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
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3.68 avg rating — 668 ratings
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Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
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4.10 avg rating — 3,114 ratings
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What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
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4.19 avg rating — 2,603 ratings
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The Medical Electricians: George A. Scott and His Victorian Cohorts in Quackery
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left
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3.45 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Doves, Diplomats, and Diabetes: A Darwinian Interpretation of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Disorders
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,573 ratings
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An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases
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4.15 avg rating — 876 ratings
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Critical Decisions: How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together
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3.92 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Power of Patient Stories: Learning Moments in Medicine
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3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Dicing with Death: Chance, Risk and Health
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3.68 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
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4.16 avg rating — 1,039 ratings
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
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4.10 avg rating — 9,274 ratings
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Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health
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4.11 avg rating — 3,441 ratings
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
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4.01 avg rating — 10,824 ratings
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The Cure for Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness
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3.76 avg rating — 881 ratings
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Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?: Fitness Myths, Training Truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise
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4.02 avg rating — 2,045 ratings
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The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
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3.89 avg rating — 1,076 ratings
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Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions
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Physicist's Guide to Skepticism
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Heart 411: The Only Guide to Heart Health You'll Ever Need
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4.26 avg rating — 152 ratings
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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
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3.93 avg rating — 7,645 ratings
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Suffer the Children: Flaws, Foibles, Fallacies and the Grave Shortcomings of Pediatric Care
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Epidural Without Guilt: Childbirth Without Pain
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3.79 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
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4.15 avg rating — 1,542 ratings
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Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
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4.20 avg rating — 2,265 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,557 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 114,113 ratings
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The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering
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3.84 avg rating — 976 ratings
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
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3.90 avg rating — 24,307 ratings
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The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution
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3.73 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine's Beautiful Idea, and Our Difficulty Swallowing It
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4.16 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine
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Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted
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4.05 avg rating — 814 ratings
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Time to Care: Personal Medicine in the Age of Technology
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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior
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3.66 avg rating — 4,829 ratings
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Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq
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3.97 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Don't Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style
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3.73 avg rating — 755 ratings
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The Woman Who Decided to Die: Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine
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3.98 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth
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4.11 avg rating — 455 ratings
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Science Under Siege: Defending Science, Exposing Pseudoscience
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3.77 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-1963: A Medicine of Revolution (Needham Research Institute Series)
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Riddled with Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites that Make Us Who We Are
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3.73 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Triumph of the Heart: The Story of Statins
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2.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology
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3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine
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4.11 avg rating — 4,579 ratings
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Mathematical Cranks
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The Science and Art of Living a Longer and Healthier Life
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Bad Science
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4.06 avg rating — 44,803 ratings
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Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
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4.19 avg rating — 1,398 ratings
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On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
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Women Aren't Supposed to Fly: The Memoirs of a Female Flight Surgeon
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3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
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3.82 avg rating — 3,361 ratings
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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4.01 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Puswhisperer: A Year in the Life of an Infectious Disease Doctor
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3.98 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Consumer Health: A Guide To Intelligent Decisions
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The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
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4.07 avg rating — 5,799 ratings
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