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Like all books, especially those produced on a limited budget, we expect there will be a few errors in the text of this book. We have provided this Erratum page so that you can download corrections and attach the page to your copy of the e-book. We will make every attempt to replace corrections on the Pdf as soon as possible.

 

 

Thursday January 3 2008

 

Page 2 – line 3 – 1984 not 1989

Page 2 –third para – line 1 – York University not Surrey

Line 2 – 1979

Last line third para – head of Nutrition.

Page 3 – third para – line 1 – 1984 not 1989

 

 

Thursday January 3 2008

 

The second paragraph on P246 that reads:

So already the nice clear division between fraudulent untested nutrition and scientifically based drug treatments is emerging as in the US were given to people on an off-label basis. What not so simple as Goldacre’s rhetoric regularly makes it out to be. But it gets worse. Last summer a very fascinating paper appeared in another top journal the Archives of Internal Medicine entitled:ÉÉ

 

 

 

Should read:

So already the nice clear division between fraudulent untested nutrition and scientifically based drug treatments is emerging as not so simple as Goldacre’s rhetoric regularly makes it out to be. But it gets worse. Last summer a very fascinating paper appeared in another top journal – the Archives of Internal Medicine entitled: ÉÓ

 

Footnote 13 on page 35 which reads:

 

They say: SKEPTICS IN THE PUB takes place Upstairs in the Florence Nightingale pub, 199 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1, U.K. Junction with York Road, on the roundabout. Near Waterloo station. Guest ales and food available. Non-skeptics welcome. You can turn up at any time during the night.

 

 

Should be updated to read.

 

They say: Skeptics in the Pub meets (usually) on the third Tuesday of every month starting at 7pm at The Penderel's Oak, Holborn. A £2 donation is requested to cover the guest speaker's travelling expenses and sundries. Non-skeptics are welcome. Turn up at any time during the evening.