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Tainted Truth: The Manipulation of Fact In America

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This book will open your eyes to what goes on behind the "research" we hear reported on every day. After reading this book you'll no longer be swept along by empty media hype which lacks substance.

She tells some fascinating stories about what really goes on in food and drug "research."

Read it, if you're a lover of hard hitting truthful books.

It was necessary for a book like this to be written. And this is because for people who are "bloodhounds for the truth" (a la Penn and Teller or James Randi), they want hard data to show why something is accurate and by how much.

However, books like this are very laborious to read because the amount of detail is just overwhelming.

And so a reader is between the Scylla of needing enough detail for plausibility and the Charbydis of actually having to read through all that detail.

Tainted Truth took the far opposite side of the manipulation of fact argument. I feel that the content of the book turns the weak minded cynical, and the strong minded incensed. The data provided within the book is accurate for the most part, but there are glaring errors in the data provided in many of the vignettes.

This Book was used in a Graduate school class; I saw some of the class take the information as Gospel, turning them into cynics about any data for the remainder of the program. Others who realized that this was nothing more than another point of view took it as just what it is: another point of view

I enjoyed this book. Some of the content may already be well-known but there are some jewels in this book. I suggest it for young adults and generation X for a good perspective on what's published now and even better, for what can be accomplished in the future using some powerful media influence!

good introduction to how people abuse research studies, and sometimes, even worse, commission studies with the intent of only releasing them if they spin the results in their favor.