Book Swap Thread - 'Bad Science' - by Ben Goldacre - New readers needed!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Splash

PM sent - cheers Rob. I'll probably get through it in a couple of days, so if you want to give me details of someone to send it on to I'll get it posted out as soon as I'm done.

---

Can you send to rave if he can't get it via the library? rave - can you let Splash know?

Cheers

Rob

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by tiggerai

I'll have it after Jiff - was discussing it yesterday :)

---

Tigg - I have my own copy you can have if you want it rather than wait for Jiff to finish it?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Rob_B

Tigg - I have my own copy you can have if you want it rather than wait for Jiff to finish it?

---

He lives round the corner from my 'rents so I can wait - it'll give me an excuse to go visit him too! Don't mind waiting - someone else in another part of the country can have one - don't wanna flood MK!

No probs, my wife does want to read it so guess I should keep it for a while anyway!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Rob_B

Can you send to rave if he can't get it via the library? rave - can you let Splash know?

Cheers

Rob

---

Sure thing

I will post here when finished so I can send onto the next person :)

I’ll add my thumbs up for “13 Things That Don’t Make Sense” by Michael Brooks as a great book to read, along the same lines as “Bad Science”. Despite already being aware of most of the topics he covered, the fact that the author took the time to present all sides of the subject without any significant bias was rather refreshing. It is also written in a very engaging fashion as well, with difficult concepts being handled without oversimplification.

As an aside there is definitely something “brewing” within science at the moment, with the outcome being a paradigm shift on the scale of “Newtonian to Relativistic mechanics”. The hard part is working out in which discipline it is going to happen as there are so many “mysteries”. If I were a betting man then some small discovering relating to abnormal brain conditions is going to turn everything we know about human intelligence on its head… if you will excuse the pun.

Book arrived today - already on chapter 5. Shall let Rai know the moment I've finished.

Tis a bloody good read. :)

Book arrived in the post yesterday, will get cracking today on the way to work.

Rave - am I sending on to you afterwards, and if so could you drop me a PM with your details?

Can I add me to the list for this please? I need a rest from medical texts:confused:

Book arrived yesterday.
Forgot to pick it up this morning, but as with Splash will be reading it on the way to work and hopefully grab an hour in the evening between studying.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Disturbedguy

Book arrived yesterday.
Forgot to pick it up this morning, but as with Splash will be reading it on the way to work and hopefully grab an hour in the evening between studying.

---

Could you send to OiD when you finish? Cheers :)

Weird... I could've sworn I posted in this thread!

I was going to say, I would appreciate being added to the list :)

But... I won't get an opportunity to read it until after July 8th (when I finish at work) so if anybody wants to sneak ahead of me before then, I'm more than happy to wait.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Rob_B

Could you send to OiD when you finish? Cheers :)

---

Will do.

So how are people getting on with it then? :)

It's taken me longer than I though, currently about halfway through but given that I finished my job on Friday I should be done soon. Some interesting stuff in there... Who am I sending on to after I'm done?