Public speaking for scientists

I love how the author uses his own scientist-in-the-public-eye experience, to inform us here (mistakes and all).
He lays this book out as a manual for scientists who may enter the public media arena in opposition to unscientific opinions being touted by usually charismatic and powerful people. He explains why It is so important to have scientists who can navigate this media jungle.

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Excellent!

I am biased in favour of this book, in that I fully support the use of vaccines. This is because I am old enough to remember the devastation that childhood diseases wreaked upon communities in the past. I also saw less children becoming sick over the years, but now we are seeing more because of parents being swayed by the anti-vaccination movement. This is more or less the theme of this book.
Bad Advice is interesting and includes the struggles of people, including the author, who were at the sharp end of criticism by the mislead and those who should have known better. If anything it confirms that people are right not to trust anything anyone recommends, celebrity or otherwise, unless it is supported by constantly updating and verifiable scientific data and research.
The narration was very good.

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Excellent

Apart from the deluge of information good and bad relating to the corona flu virus of 20/20 and into 20/21 which has been disturbing, the quest for global collective consensus of understanding science/ scientists and the "cashcow" mentality the big pharma greed which is virilantly active and at the present point in human history seemingly impossible to stop, any vaccination is inevitably seen as suspicious to say the least.
Will there ever be a virus free world? From a scientists view the answer can only be a resounding no but with the attached caveat let us try our best to eliminate unnecessary suffering.
Tom O'Rourke 1953...? love always

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Very informative that easily dismissed anti science stance with facts

Easily breaks down the anti science wave that has been getting more and more attention in today’s media. Very informative book that is easy to understand. By using simple facts it completely destroys anti vaccine snake oil salesmen.

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Good science, petty author

The whole book just comes across as quite petty. The author using it as a platform to insult people hes met through life. He even mentions this as a mistake he made during an interview (attacking the person and not just explaining the science) and spends the rest of the book attacking people. Shame as it makes it hard to enjoy the book otherwise.

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Gave up listening

Too many unnecessary anecdotes about his kids. He criticises people for not carrying out proper non-web based research which I agree with but then slates global warming skeptics, I’m wondering how much ‘proper’ research he’s carried out on that before analysing facts for or against human causation. Perhaps he does later in the book but I’ll never know, the book is just too anecdotal and he’s still adhering to some popular culture / current norms himself in the areas that he cherry picks.

I wish they wouldn’t pick readers with ‘bag yourself a bargain’ mode of presentation for this type of book, aren’t there science based media people out there who could do a better job?

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