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Bad Science Books
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Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as bad-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,598 ratings — published 2008
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bad-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,252 ratings — published 1995
Daisy's Run (The Clockwork Chimera, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bad-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,087 ratings — published 2018
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bad-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,000,798 ratings — published 2012
Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 310 ratings — published 2010
Ship Wrecked (Ship Wrecked #1)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,088 ratings — published
The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 37,725 ratings — published 2016
The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 180 ratings — published 2015
The Scientist's Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.41 — 322 ratings — published 2016
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,879 ratings — published 2015
Research Methods in Psychology: Evaluating a World of Information (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.73 — 340 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 574,299 ratings — published 2011
How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-based Medicine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 374 ratings — published 1999
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 153,597 ratings — published 2024
How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.65 — 797 ratings — published 2020
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,776 ratings — published 2017
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.41 — 278,664 ratings — published 2018
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,381 ratings — published 2018
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,607,163 ratings — published 2012
Go Big or Go Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,042 ratings — published 2008
Thirteen Rising (Zodiac, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,363 ratings — published 2017
The Way It Went Down Vol. 2: Delta Green (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 51 ratings — published
Uranus (Outer Planets Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.25 — 340 ratings — published
Nellie and the Nanites: Book One (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.42 — 38 ratings — published
An Affinity for Formaldehyde (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.55 — 60 ratings — published
The Politics of the Family and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 226 ratings — published 1969
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 174,862 ratings — published 2012
Deception Point (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.76 — 695,218 ratings — published 2001
The Secrets of the Self: A Philosophical Poem 1944 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 314 ratings — published 1915
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.62 — 1,870 ratings — published 2013
Girl in Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.67 — 6,821 ratings — published 2022
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,020 ratings — published 2020
We Have Always Been Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.51 — 2,677 ratings — published 2021
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 33,341 ratings — published 2022
OMD: The Simple, Plant-Based Program to Save Your Health, Save Your Waistline, and Save the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 197 ratings — published 2018
The Sauropod Dinosaurs (Life in the Age of Giants)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.62 — 42 ratings — published
Reparation of Sin (The Society #2)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,221 ratings — published 2021
Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,547 ratings — published 2021
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 44,702 ratings — published 2018
Sweetening the Pill: or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.57 — 336 ratings — published 2013
Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,236 ratings — published
Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 861 ratings — published 1996
Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit, and the Ultimate Experiment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 65 ratings — published 1987
Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 90 ratings — published 1993
The Guest List (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,242,963 ratings — published 2020
One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is not a Globe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.05 — 86 ratings — published 1885
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 42,260 ratings — published 2017
Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,376 ratings — published 2021
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“The psychological view of ME led to the controversial and now debunked PACE trial—PACE is “Pacing, graded Activity, and Cognitive behaviour therapy; a randomised Evaluation”... As the trial progressed and the results did not meet the authors’ expectations, they simply lowered the threshold to define improvement. In some cases, those whose condition had deteriorated were classed as “recovered”. That is simply not good science.”
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