Big fat liars : how politicians, corporations, and the media use science and statistics to manipulate the public /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chafetz, Morris E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville, Tenn. : Nelson Current, [2005]
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The danger of generalization
  • It's all point of view
  • I'm okay, and if you were like me, you'd be okay, too
  • Playing god as an institutional right
  • The new gods don't know either
  • The environmental mess
  • Global warming : more heat than light
  • Behavior as disease
  • Alcohol and alcoholism
  • Mushrooms and the misuse of the public health model
  • Doctors always get it right, right?
  • Correlation as causation
  • Bad science and tobacco
  • Addiction
  • Obesity
  • Revolt against the machines
  • The attack on business
  • Terrorism and other worries
  • The money factor
  • The assault on personal responsibility
  • Dealing with guilt
  • Refusing to sell your soul
  • The only expert on you is you.