Rigor mortis : how sloppy science creates worthless cures, crushes hope, and wastes billions / Richa...
Rigor mortis : how sloppy science creates worthless cures, crushes hope, and wastes billions / Richa...
Rigor mortis : how sloppy science creates worthless cures, crushes hope, and wastes billions / Richard Harris.
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, [2017]
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G 2017/6059
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English
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Physical content
vii, 278 pages ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Begley's bombshell -- It's hard even on the good days -- A bucket of cold water -- Misled by mice -- Trusting the untrustworthy -- Jumping to conclusions -- Show your work -- A broken culture -- The challenge of precision medicine -- Inventing a discipline.
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, [2017]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
"Biomedical science--the research that underlies our treatments and cures--is in deep crisis. Every year, American taxpayers spend more than $30 billion funding it. About half of that work, by some estimates, is wrong. As award-winning science journalist Richard Harris reveals in Rigor Mortis, this is not simply the result of trial and error, whic...
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Rigor mortis : how sloppy science creates worthless cures, crushes hope, and wastes billions / Richard Harris.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-264) and index.
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©2017
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G 2017/6059
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74VKVgyxlwNZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgyxlwNZ
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ISBN
9780465097913
9780465097906 (hardcover)
0465097901 (hardcover)
046509791X
DDC
610.72
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991024148780102626
