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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
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Ben Goldacre
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital 4.23 avg rating — 6,798 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
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The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
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All Natural: A Skeptic's Quest for Health and Happiness in an Age of Ecological Anxiety 3.71 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health 4.11 avg rating — 3,392 ratings
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Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?: Fitness Myths, Training Truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise
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Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 55,260 ratings 29. 
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
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Matt Richtel
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The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands
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Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science 3.74 avg rating — 2,176 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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The Thirteenth Step: Addiction in the Age of Brain Science
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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior 3.66 avg rating — 4,779 ratings
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Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth
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Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine 4.01 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Consumer Health: A Guide To Intelligent Decisions
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Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome: A Survival Manual 4.24 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Consciousness in Four Dimensions: Biological Relativity and the Origins of Thought
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Your Patient Safety Survival Guide: How to Protect Yourself and Others from Medical Errors really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
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The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters 3.82 avg rating — 9,700 ratings
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The Hormone Myth: How Junk Science, Gender Politics, and Lies about PMS Keep Women Down 3.73 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
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Jon Palfreman
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The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
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Lee Smolin
4.04 avg rating — 10,551 ratings 
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Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide
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Alex Reinhart
4.19 avg rating — 1,067 ratings 71. 
Snowball in a Blizzard: A Physician's Notes on Uncertainty in Medicine
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Steven C. Hatch
4.03 avg rating — 212 ratings 72. 
Sharks Get Cancer, Mole Rats Don't: How Animals Could Hold the Key to Unlocking Cancer Immunity in Humans
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4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings 73. 
The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
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The Science of Mom: A Research-Based Guide to Your Baby's First Year
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Monkeys, Myths, and Molecules: Separating Fact from Fiction, and the Science of Everyday Life
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A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir for Truth and Finding Trouble
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4.12 avg rating — 146 ratings 80. 
Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine 4.01 avg rating — 8,185 ratings
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The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition
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Gregory Hickok
3.78 avg rating — 318 ratings 82. 
The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work
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4.05 avg rating — 860 ratings 
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The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and What You Can Do About Them 4.01 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
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4.02 avg rating — 3,255 ratings 
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In the Name of God: The True Story of the Fight to Save Children from Faith-Healing Homicide
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Chiropractic Abuse: An Insider's Lament
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Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
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3.67 avg rating — 660 ratings 90. 
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4.19 avg rating — 2,527 ratings 91. 
The Medical Electricians: George A. Scott and His Victorian Cohorts in Quackery
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Robert K. Waits
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 92. 
Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left
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3.44 avg rating — 190 ratings 93. 
Doves, Diplomats, and Diabetes: A Darwinian Interpretation of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Disorders
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 94. 
An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases 4.15 avg rating — 857 ratings
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Critical Decisions: How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together
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3.91 avg rating — 130 ratings 96. 
The Power of Patient Stories: Learning Moments in Medicine
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3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
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Thea Cooper
4.15 avg rating — 1,004 ratings 99. 
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4.01 avg rating — 10,634 ratings 100. 
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