105 books
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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 — 45,126 ratings — published 2008
We Have Always Been Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as bad-science)
avg rating 3.50 — 2,796 ratings — published 2021
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bad-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,645 ratings — published 1995
Daisy's Run (The Clockwork Chimera, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bad-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,123 ratings — published 2018
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bad-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,023,064 ratings — published 2012
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bad-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,947,756 ratings — published 1818
Half-Breed (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.29 — 35 ratings — published
Europa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,165 ratings — published 2025
Tales from the Couch: A Clinical Psychologist's True Stories of Psychopathology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,087 ratings — published 2015
Warrior Race (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.45 — 110 ratings — published 1952
Fresh Dirt From the Grave (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,385 ratings — published 2020
Mind the Science: Saving your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 250 ratings — published 2024
Congo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.64 — 179,970 ratings — published 1980
Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 311 ratings — published 2010
Ship Wrecked (Ship Wrecked #1)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,101 ratings — published
The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 39,179 ratings — published
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 — 187 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 — 328 ratings — published 2016
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,611 ratings — published 2015
Research Methods in Psychology: Evaluating a World of Information (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.72 — 355 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 601,609 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 — 382 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 4.31 — 201,228 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 — 838 ratings — published 2020
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,913 ratings — published 2017
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 285,160 ratings — published 2018
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,489 ratings — published 2018
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,638,263 ratings — published 2012
Go Big or Go Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.55 — 1,051 ratings — published 2008
Thirteen Rising (Zodiac, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,435 ratings — published 2017
The Way It Went Down Vol. 2: Delta Green (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 55 ratings — published
Uranus (Outer Planets Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.21 — 368 ratings — published
Nellie and the Nanites: Book One (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.44 — 43 ratings — published
An Affinity for Formaldehyde (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.53 — 68 ratings — published
The Politics of the Family and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.83 — 236 ratings — published 1969
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.39 — 180,257 ratings — published 2012
Deception Point (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.77 — 705,516 ratings — published 2001
The Secrets of the Self: A Philosophical Poem 1944 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 321 ratings — published 1915
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.62 — 2,111 ratings — published 2013
Girl in Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,255 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 — 6,340 ratings — published 2020
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 37,498 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 3.80 — 200 ratings — published 2018
The Sauropod Dinosaurs (Life in the Age of Giants)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 4.64 — 47 ratings — published
Reparation of Sin (The Society #2)
by (shelved 1 time as bad-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,600 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 — 1,623 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 — 46,469 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
“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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“It is hard to see how scientific theories that don't correspond with reality and consequently don't work can benefit marginalized people, or anyone.”
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