A Must Read that really is a Must Read

I read, not so long ago, Ben Goldacre’s excellent book, Badscience.  It’s the kind of book that makes you want to tell every single person you meet that they MUST read it.  You really have to watch yourself and make sure you don’t cross the line from letting people know about something they can’t possibly find uninteresting to talking about it so much people stop inviting you to parties.

Everybody should read this book.  When I finished reading it I initially thought about writing a book review post, rather than this post a month later that’s more like a fan letter and a plea for the whole world to read the book rather than a review.  At the time I decided against it, figuring that having featured for some time on several best seller lists since its publication a few years ago, there wasn’t really much I was going to be able to add.  Besides, there are people that do reviews a lot better than me, here is a fairly thorough one from The Telegraph.  Read more...