Timothy Caulfield
Autore di The Cure for Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness
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Timothy Caulfield is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, and Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. He contributes frequently to the popular press and is the author of The Cure for mostra altro Everything: Untangling the Twisted Messages about Health. Fitness, and Happiness, and The Science of Celebrity or Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? as well as the host of the popular Netflix show A User's Guide to Cheating Death. mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Timothy Caulfield
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Beacon Press (1)
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- Opere
- 10
- Utenti
- 250
- Popolarità
- #91,401
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- 3.6
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- 35
- ISBN
- 26
I liked this book a great deal. The structure of a day is an excellent framing device, and the writing is conversational, with amusing examples drawn from the author’s life. The author acknowledges his own biases and limitations (e.g., his weakness for overpriced coffee), which is a good thing when you’re discussing how other people make decisions. Caulfield is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy and is therefore knowledgeable about how scientific studies work, and most importantly, how they are reported on, often incorrectly. He provides examples of language to watch out for that marks it as “observational” and therefore not a conclusive study that demonstrates a causal relationship.
I would recommend this if you’ve read books by Ben Goldacre, Dean Burnett, or Dan Ariely.… (altro)