David Gorski, MD, PhD Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Surgeon/scientist promoting science-based medicine. Editor, Science-Based Medicine blog. (He/him.) Also at https://t.co/2LecwK3CP9.

Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective?
Neil Z. Miller
Since #COVID19, in the antivax world everything old is new again. That’s right, Gary S. Goldman and Neil Z. Miller are back to defend their 2011 infant mortality “study” and RFK Jr. is flogging it as slam-dunk “evidence” that vaccines kill babies. https://t.co/5zbkT8y6Di
Paperback, 2015
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Deeper Thoughts: All New, All Crispy
Jack Handey
Geez. Now he's beome a low rent science version of Jack Handey's "Deep Thoughts."🙄 https://t.co/3GmvJ17YFd
Paperback, 1993
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
@19joho @jeffreyatucker Actually, the heroes of Atlas Shrugged, the ones Ayn Rand presented as the the admirable "makers," were the despicable ones. My favorite example is Dr. Hendricks, a neurosurgeon who claimed to have developed a cure/preventative for all strokes but wouldn't share it. Why?
Paperback, Mass Market, 1996
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Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
Michael Shermer
It's the hubris leading to the belief that *you* can't become a conspiracy theorist (because your critical thinking skills are so awesome) that explains how former "leaders" of the skeptic movement (e.g., Michael Shermer) can go all-in on conspiracy theories about #CRT and trans.
Hardcover, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Paul A. Offit
@KaraKarlson @sophiacbess @bijans @notdred It doesn't come as too surprising to me after the chapter on Rachel Carson in his book "Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong," which was pattered on the seven deadly sins. In it, he parroted right wing tropes about Rachel Carson and DDT. https://t.co/Py5oWUwUfQ
Hardcover, 2017
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Alkaline: Dr. Robert O Young's pH Diet & Mindset
Robert O. Young
If anyone remembers Robert O. Young and his "alkaline lifestyle" quackery, basically this was his message. To him, cancer was the body's reaction to try to get rid of cells "spoilt" by acid. His solution? An "alkaline" diet, of course.
Paperback, 2020
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Plandemic: Fear Is the Virus. Truth Is the Cure.
Mikki Willis
Mikki Willis of "#Plandemic" fame is back, and this time he's flogging conspiracy theories about #ivermectin as a "suppressed" cure for #COVID19. https://t.co/q4l8YzNze3
Hardcover, 2021
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Confessions of a Medical Heretic
Robert Mendelsohn
@DisabilityStor1 Well yes. I first learned that over 40 years ago in college when I first encountered Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn and his book Confessions of a Medical Heretic
Paperback, 1990
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Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury--A Known Neurotoxin--From Vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy
That anniversary snuck up on me. It's been 25 years since Andrew Wakeful published his atrocious case series that, along with thimerosal fear mongering by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. a few years later, formed the basis of the pre-pandemic antivax movement. https://t.co/awGJLqjimU
Hardcover, 2014
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Matt Ridley
@AtomsksSanakan @Florin_Uncovers @JoshRosenau @Corp_Raider99 @pathogenetics @MJnanostretch @PhilippMarkolin @jbloom_lab @past_is_future @stuartjdneil @nailbomb3 @_everythingism @c0nc0rdance It's a shame, actually. I quite enjoyed Ridley's "Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters." I had no idea when I read it what a science-denying crank he was. It almost makes me want to go back and read it again to see if I missed indications in the book.
Paperback, 2006
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