Do Statins Work?: The Battle for Perfect Evidence-Based Medicine

Author(s): Ben Goldacre

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Statins are the single most commonly prescribed class of drugs in the whole of the developed world. They're taken by over 100 million people, with millions more patients being offered them every year. We know that statins do some good, but we don't know how big the benefits are. This book gives patients the tools they need to make their own decisions about the trade-off between the benefits, inconvenience and risk of statin use.

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From the review of 'I Think You'll Find It's More Complicated Than That': 'In a busy world where most of us believe what we're told, the science writer Goldacre looks behind the quackery. "Science is squabble," he says ... In short, everything you take at face value is wrong. Maybe even this review: now read Ben.' The Times From the reviews of 'Bad Science': 'For sheer savagery, the illusion-destroying, joyous attack on the self-regarding, know-nothing orthodoxies of the modern middle classes, "Bad Science" can not be beaten. You'll laugh your head off, then throw all those expensive health foods in the bin.' Trevor Philips, Observer (Book of the Year) 'Unmissable ... enormously enjoyable.' The Times (Book of the Year) From the reviews of 'Bad Pharma': 'This is a book to make you enraged - properly, bone-shakingly furious...A work of brilliance.' Daily Telegraph 'An important book. Ben Goldacre is angry, and by the time you put 'Bad Pharma' down, you should be too.' New Statesman

Ben Goldacre is a doctor, writer, broadcaster and academic who specialises in unpicking dodgy scientific claims from drug companies, newspapers, government reports, PR people and quacks. His first book, Bad Science, reached Number One in the non-fiction charts, sold over 400,000 copies in the UK alone, and has been translated into 25 languages. He is 38 and lives in London.

General Fields

  • : 9780008151973
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Fourth Estate Ltd
  • : 0.27
  • : November 2015
  • : United Kingdom
  • : April 2019
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 304
  • : 615.718
  • : en
  • : Jul-16
  • : Paperback
  • : Ben Goldacre