Trick or Treatment?
Provides an examination and judgement of more than thirty of the most treatments in alternative medicine, such as acupuncture, homeopathy, aromatherapy, reflexology, chiropractic and herbal medicine.
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- I've updated my bookshelf to include Simon Singh's "Trick or Treatment" which sparked his involvement in libel reform when he was sued by the Chiropractor's association.
Given the impact on his life for the past few years he deserves recompense. Plus his earlier works were excellent.
- Deep Learning With Python, Third Edition by Francois Chollet and Matthew Watson
Recently read books by Anthony Doerr (Shell Collector, About Grace, Memory Wall, All the Light We Cannot See) and Simon Singh (Code Book, Fermat's Last Theorem, Trick or Treatment, The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets).
- I agree that that sentence could give that impression but I think it's a little out of context. If you read Simon Singh's stuff (particularly Trick or Treatment, the book which lead to the article which lead to the libel case) it's really not what he advocates - he advocates having a robust evidence base for what you're saying.
I think what he was trying to say in the sentence you quote is "I believe the overwhelming majority of the people who have looked at this subject, have a history of backing up their claims with robust, tested, reviewed evidence and are doing so in this instance".
- Three? Which are you missing?
The Code Book, Fermat's Last Theorem, Big Bang or Trick or Treatment (with Edzard Ernst)?
