On Friday morning, owners of the Amazon Kindle e-book reader (only available in the US at the moment) woke up to discover Amazon had effectively walked into their living rooms, picked up their copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from the coffee table and left a cheque to the value of the books in their place.
The Guardian's Dr Ben Goldacre has published a free and originally missing chapter from his recent book, Bad Science, an exposé on the bad science that infects policy and health in the UK.
The chapter, "The Doctor Will Sue You Now", was originally cut from the printed edition because its subject, a vitamin salesman named Matthias Rath, tied Dr Goldacre up…
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