坏科学
Bad Science
Ben Goldacre · 初版 2008 年
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为什么值得读
- 全景曝光庸医行骗与未经检验的疗法
- 揭露制药公司不合伦理的商业操作
- 以充分事实与文献支撑破除媒体误导
充满愤懑与犀利批判，这将是一场穿梭于 Bad Science 世界的搞笑、振奋且增长见识的旅程。当 Ben Goldacre 博士在日间电视节目中看到有人把脚浸在“Aqua Detox”足浴盆里，将体内的毒素排入水中使其变褐色时，他想在家里做个同样的尝试。“就像某种 Johnny Ball 兼 Witchfinder General 一样”，他用女友的芭比娃娃，将微弱电流通入温热的盐水中。水变褐了。用他的话说：“就在我的眼前，世界上第一个 Detox Barbie 坐在那里，双脚浸在一汪褐色污泥中，完成了排毒”
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……执行起来几乎不费吹灰之力。获取的信息越多我就越可能继续往下聊，但本·戈尔达克尔（Ben Goldacre）在他的书《伪科学》（Bad Science，我记得最近刚在美国出版 http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Science-Quacks-Pharma-Flacks/dp/08...）里说得比我好得多，也详尽得多。不过重要的是，不要以为因为常规疗法的证据……
…executed with little or no additional effort. The more information is available the more likely I'd go on but Ben Goldacre has said it all far better than I could, and in far greater detail in his book Bad Science which I think has just been released in the US (http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Science-Quacks-Pharma-Flacks/dp/08...). What is important though is not to assume that because the evidence for conventional…
……那些可能让问题雪上加霜、同时还撺掇患者远离经过验证的疗法的做法，在现代社会根本不该有立足之地。如果你对此有哪怕一点怀疑，或许该去读读本·戈尔达克尔的《伪科学》（Bad Science），书中走马观花般揭露了这类江湖骗术，以及各大制药公司搞出来的各种不道德行径。
…that may make problems worse, while also encouraging patients to stay away from tested treatments, should play no part in a modern society. If you're in any doubt about this, perhaps you should read 'Bad Science' by Ben Goldacre, which takes a whistle stop tour of such quackery, as well as the various unethical practices undertaken by pharmaceutical companies.
完全没错。我记得本·戈尔达克尔的书《伪科学》（Bad Science）里就记录过几个例子。我希望信里提的就是那几个例子，否则英国就发生过太多起冤假错案了。我对那本书的记忆完全是……
Quite right. I remember Ben Goldacre's book Bad Science documenting a few examples. I hope these are the same examples raised in the letter, because otherwise a lot of miscarriage of justice has happened in the UK. What I remember from the book is entirely…
作为一个读过这类研究的人，我该怎么分辨出“真正的”研究和那些被夸大其词的研究？我读过本·戈尔达克尔的《伪科学》（Bad Science，强烈推荐），但我可没时间对报纸或者其他媒体抛出来的每项研究都深入调查一番。有没有什么简单的办法能查明这项——或者任何其他研究——到底……
As a person who read about studies like these, how do I filter out the "real" studies versus the studies blown out of proportions? I've read Ben Goldacre's Bad Science (which I highly recommend), but I don't have the time to do much research on every study newspapers/other media come out with. Is there a simple way to find out whether this - or any other study, for…
在这个主题上，没有哪本书比本·戈尔达克尔的《伪科学》（Bad Science）更值得我强烈推荐了。它涵盖的话题远不止这些，但基础知识依然讲得非常透彻，而且我相信它抛出的论点都有文献支持（我读完挺久了，手头也没有……
I can't recommend any text on the subject more highly than "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre. It covers a lot more topics than just this, but it still covers the basics very well and I believe it has references for its claims (it has been a while since I read it and I don't have…
……对大多数患者来说，它们相比安慰剂并没有带来额外益处——只对病情最严重的抑郁症患者有效。而且年轻患者用药还有病情恶化的风险。我记得这是我读《伪科学》（Bad Science）留下的印象，没记错的话（IIRC）书里有参考文献。博客版的专栏示例：http://www.badscience.net/2008/01/washing-the-numbers-sellin... http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Science-Ben-Goldacre/dp/000728487X
…they do not have a benefit over placebo for most patients - only for the most depressed patients. And also some risk of worsening things for younger patients. I think I got this impression from reading Bad Science, which had references IIRC. Example column from the blog version: http://www.badscience.net/2008/01/washing-the-numbers-sellin... http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Science-Ben-Goldacre/dp/000728487X