After reading this book, and the Doctoring Data book from the same author, I will never ever take Statins under any circumstances, nor if my mum and dad were alive, would I allow them to take Statins either. Pharmaceutical companies…
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Book Reviews, Health, Politics
Book Review: Doctoring Data, by Dr Malcolm Kendrick
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How to sort out medical advice from medical nonsense. In a world where somebody somewhere (usually the media) are telling you that you mustn’t do this, or you must do something else, to the point that you don’t really know…
Politics
PFI: Scandously Poor Money Management
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I knew PFI was a waste of taxpayers money, but didn’t know how much of a waste it was until something I spotted recently. Let me give an example: You want to buy a car for £5000. You can’t afford…
Book Reviews, Popular Science
Book Review: 15 Million Degrees, by Lucie Green
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I have read popular science books and know about how scientists can work out what things are made of by studying the light that comes from them, and how this is directly related to the elements that things are made…
Book Reviews, Politics, Popular Science
Book Review: I think you’ll find its a bit more complicated than that, by Ben Goldacre
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I love books that talk about facts and peoples perception of reality. Not saying I understand why people think like they do (unless its the media, in which case they come up with the biggest headlines to catch attention who…
Book Reviews, Health
Book Review: Why we Sleep by Matthew Walker
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Matthew has researched sleep for over 30 years. I couldn’t believe how much knowledge can be obtained by different variations of sleep tests. Surely when you have done a couple you have done them all right? WRONG!! It also has…
Book Reviews, Politics, Popular Science
Book Review: The Geek Manifesto by Mark Henderson
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I read this book soon after Thinking Fast and Slow, and understood afterwards that politicians rarely use System 2. They always work off what they think is true (System 1) rather than working things out because lets face it, life…
Covid-19, Politics
COVID-19: What if we are looking at the wrong data? What if we seriously damage our world as a result?
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Lets forget COVID-19 for a moment and all the news coverage and everything that’s happened in 2020. Lets pretend we have just discovered a new type of common cold virus that is very infectious. We want to know if this…
Book Reviews, Politics
Book Review: Corona False Alarm? by Dr Karin Reiss and Dr Sucharit Bhakdi
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In these current times, when entire populations are being locked down, livelihoods and mental wellbeing’s are being damaged or destroyed, our lives are being controlled, and the politicians are making laws and stopping other views, this is an important book.…
Book Reviews, Psychology
Book Review: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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This book came out in 2011 and must be one of my favourite reads. The book is the lifes work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Daniel won the Nobel Prize for his lifes work. Amos couldn’t because he had…