Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
by Ben Goldacre
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Tim Ferriss and Bryan Callen
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Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol consumption Or how a drug that is pulled off the market for causing heart attacks ever got approved in the first place How can average readers, who aren't medical doctors or Ph.D.s in bioche...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science, and Nonfiction.
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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