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