![]() ![]() Ben tells great yarns with good jokes (getting "Dr" McKeith's degree for his dead cat is one of the best) but an underlying high seriousness. He explains not just what happens but how and why. ![]() We also learn how the media, especially it seems the British, swallow fistfulls of alarmist nonsense and ignore anything resembling real science. There are tricksters aplenty and some villains, the most egregious being the guy who persuaded Mbeki to torpedo the the South African AIDS programme. I was familiar with it in outline but Ben really makes clear how it works and why it matters and far from blinding us with science he shows it to be common sense pursued to the utterance. The clinical trial - blind, controlled, randomised, peer-reviewed - is the hero of the book. ![]() Funny, educative, committed, deeply informed. ![]()
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