Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions

An essential book to understanding whether the new miracle cure is good science or simply too good to be true
American taxpayers spend $30 billion annually funding biomedical research, but over half of these studies can't be replicated due to poor experimental design, improper methods, and sloppy statistics. Bad science doesn't just hold back medical progress, it can sign the equivalent of a death sentence for terminal patients. In Rigor Mortis, Richard Harris explores these urgent issues with vivid anecdotes, personal stories, and interviews with the top biomedical researchers. We need to fix our dysfunctional biomedical system--before it's too late.

• Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
• An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
• Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
• The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
• Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
• Mistreated: Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care-and Why We're Usually Wrong
• A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
• What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
• Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
• Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong