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13 Things That Don’t Make Sense Michael Brooks. -
50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavio r Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, John Ruscio, and Barry L. Beyerstein. -
A Physician’s Apology . Thomas Schneider -
All Medicines are Poison! Melvin H. Kirschner -
All Natural: A Skeptic’s Quest to Discover if the Natural Approach to Diet, Childbirth, Healing, and the Environment Really Keeps Us Healthier and Happie r. Nathanael Johnson -
An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies , Moises Velasquez-Manoff -
Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure . Paul Offitt -
Bad Pharma . Ben Goldacre -
Bad Science . Ben Goldacre -
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies: How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths . Michael Shermer. -
Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth . Mark Sloan -
The Brain That Changes Itself . Norman Doidge. -
Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle, Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg -
Breakthrough! How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World . Jon Queijo -
Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines — The Truth Behind a Tragedy . Andrew Wakefield -
Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam . Pope Brock, -
The China Study: Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health . T. Colin Campbell -
Chiropractic Abuse: An Insider’s Lament. Preston Long -
The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care . Eric Topol -
Critical Decisions . Peter A. Ubel, M.D. -
The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and What You Can Do About Them. Robert Todd Carroll -
Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Ethics, the Patient, and the Physician . Edited Lois Snyder -
Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions. Stephen Barrett, William London, Manfred Kroger, Harriet Hall, and Robert Baratz -
Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq . Chris Coppola -
The Critical Thinker’s Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusion and what you can do about them . Robert Todd Carroll -
The Cure For Everything . Timothy Caulfield -
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-vaccine Movement Threatens Us Al l. Paul Offitt -
The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic . Jonathan Rottenberg -
Diagnosis, Therapy and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine . Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz. -
Dicing with Death: Chance, Risk, and Health Stephen Senn -
The Diet Fix . Yoni Freedhoff -
Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family Devra Davis, PhD -
Don’t Be Such A Scientist: Talking Substance In An Age Of Style . Randy Olson -
Doves, Diplomats, and Diabetes: A Darwinian Interpretation of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Disorders Milind Watve -
Eat to Save Your Life . Dr. Jerre Paquette and Gloria Askew, RRN -
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer . Siddhartha Mukherjee -
Epidural Without Guilt: Childbirth Without Pain , Gilbert J. Grant, MD -
Evolution Rx: A Physician’s Guide to Harnessing Our Innate Capacity for Health and Healing . William Meller -
Finding Frances . Janice M. Van Dyck -
Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted . Gerald Imber, MD. -
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History , John M. Barry -
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal . Mary Roach -
Heart 411 . Marc Gillinov and Steven Nissen -
Healing, Hype or Harm? A Critical Analysis of Complementary or Alternative Medicine . Edzard Ernst -
How to Prevent and Treat Cancer with Natural Medicine . Michael Murray, Tim Birdsall, Joseph Pizzorno, and Paul Riley -
Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology . Geoffrey C. Kabat -
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto . Michael Pollan -
Integrative Oncology: Incorporating Complementary Medicine into Conventional Cancer Care . Edited Lorenzo Cohen and Maurie Markman -
Is That a Fact? Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life . Joe Schwarcz -
The Language Of God . Frances Collins -
Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions . Dr. Worthington Hooker -
The Leisure Seeker . Michael Zadoorian -
Living Healthier and Longer – What Works, What Doesn’t. Carl Bartecchi, MD and Robert W. Schrier -
Make an Informed Vaccine Decision for the Health of Your Child Mayer Eisenstein with Neil Z. Miller -
The Mayo Clinic Book of Home Remedies: What to Do for the Most Common Health Problems . -
The Medical War Against Chiropractors: The Untold Story from Persecution to Vindication . J.C. Smith -
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues . Martin Blaser. -
The Moral Landscape . Sam Harris -
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them . Joshua Greene -
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not. Robert A. Burton -
Over-diagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health . H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz , Steve Woloshin -
The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering . Melanie Thernstrom -
Placebo Medicine . Morgan Levy -
The PTSD Breakthrough: The Revolutionary Science-Based Compass Reset Program . Dr. Frank Lawlis -
The Power of Patient Stories: Learning Moments in Medicine , Paul F. Griner, MD -
Riddled with Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites That Make Us Who We Are . Marlene Zuk -
Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left , Alex Berezow and Hank Campbell -
Science Under Siege: Defending Science, Exposing Pseudoscience -
Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine . R. Barker Bausell: -
Suffer the Children: Flaws, Foibles, Fallacies and the Grave Shortcomings of Pediatric Care . Peter Palmieri -
Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine’s Beautiful Idea, and Our Difficulty Swallowing It . Druin Burch -
Time to Care: Personal Medicine in the Age of Technology . Norman Makous -
To Improve the Evidence of Medicine: The 18th century British origins of a critical approach . Ulrich Tröhler -
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine . Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst. -
Triumph of the Heart, as its name does not suggest, is about science . Jie Jack Li, -
The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for your Child . Bob Sears -
The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written our Genetic Code Sam Kean -
What to Expect When You’re Expecting Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel -
Which comes first, cardio or weights? Alex Hutchinson -
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine , Randolph M. Nesse, MD and George C. Williams, PhD -
Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It . Gary Taubes -
The Wisdom of Menopause. Christiane Northrup -
Women Aren’t Supposed to Fly: The Memoirs of a Female Flight Surgeon . Harriet Hall -
The Woman Who Decided to Die: Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine . Rondad Munson -
The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution . David Stipp -
Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing . Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD & Kathryn Bowers