The book “BAD SCIENCE” is really a book that provides great information about the facts which are hidden from people in normal circumstances. People tend to believe in their superficial advantages of various products marketed by companies or individuals who prefer their monetary interests over public interests. They use every possible way to create a target market for their products by giving baseless scientific justification about the effectiveness of their new inventions. I am of the view that playing with the emotions of innocent people for the sake of couple of bucks should be an indictable offence. The book allowed me to gain deep intuitive understanding of the technique called “Detox Foot Bath”. The technique has been promoted
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It is important to know due to the fact that these activities are just a hoax and such activities should be aborted because such exercises are only the futile efforts of a certain group that wants that wants to manipulate the brain gym activities in its own best …show more content…
It includes that homeopathy works not more than a placebo (Goldacre, 2010, pg36). This claim is also supported by author’s idea that “Homeopathic remedies are diluted to such an extent that there will be no molecules of it left in the dose you get” (Goldacre, 2010, pg. 34). Its dilution rate is 30 C which means that it is deducted by 130 times (Goldacre, 2010, pg35). It is important to know the effectiveness of homeopathic medicines because diseases cannot be cured as a result of homeopathic treatment which puts the health of people in jeopardy. I have a personal experience in this regard. My grandfather use to give me homeopathic medicine whenever I feel ill but my sickness was mostly cured by allopathic way of treatment instead. Maybe the potency of homeopathic medicines is minimized due to over dilution. Moreover, the book gave me a chance to get an insight about what is a placebo effect. It plays a very stimulating role in healing and cure. It is based on the strength of a belief a person has in the treatment and no doubt it works. This has also been proved by Daniel Moerman when his experimental results showed the gastric ulcer patients who were given four sugar pills a day were cured better than the patients who were given two sugar pills a day as placebo
It is important to know due to the fact that these activities are just a hoax and such activities should be aborted because such exercises are only the futile efforts of a certain group that wants that wants to manipulate the brain gym activities in its own best …show more content…
It includes that homeopathy works not more than a placebo (Goldacre, 2010, pg36). This claim is also supported by author’s idea that “Homeopathic remedies are diluted to such an extent that there will be no molecules of it left in the dose you get” (Goldacre, 2010, pg. 34). Its dilution rate is 30 C which means that it is deducted by 130 times (Goldacre, 2010, pg35). It is important to know the effectiveness of homeopathic medicines because diseases cannot be cured as a result of homeopathic treatment which puts the health of people in jeopardy. I have a personal experience in this regard. My grandfather use to give me homeopathic medicine whenever I feel ill but my sickness was mostly cured by allopathic way of treatment instead. Maybe the potency of homeopathic medicines is minimized due to over dilution. Moreover, the book gave me a chance to get an insight about what is a placebo effect. It plays a very stimulating role in healing and cure. It is based on the strength of a belief a person has in the treatment and no doubt it works. This has also been proved by Daniel Moerman when his experimental results showed the gastric ulcer patients who were given four sugar pills a day were cured better than the patients who were given two sugar pills a day as placebo