Fragile Science, 2nd Edition
The Reality Behind the Headlines

By Robin Baker
Pan Macmillan
June 2002
ISBN: 0-330-48093-6
258 p.
$16.95 Paper Original

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Everyday the headlines bring news of the latest health scare, with worrying predictions for where developments in science will take us. We want and need to understand the phenomena that influence our lives, but science is often more subtle and more complicated than the headlines would suggest. Over a diverse range of subjects, Robin Baker proves that the science we as consumers believe to be true is often an oversimplication - a convenient way of explaining complex subjects which are little understood. His investigations reach their own, startling conclusions. Could it be possible, for example, that using sunscreen is actually increasing our chance of skin cancer? More and more people are taking Prozac, but does science have an easy answer to explain why? We all know the arguments in favor of conservation, but could there by strong biological arguments against it?

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