Hello all,
I'm on the phone so apologies for any bad formatting or typos. So I'm on a spree reading about bad businesse which have done harm to community, including:
_ The smartest guys in the room (Enron)
_ Empire of Pain (Purdue Pharma)
_ Bad company (private equity firms)
_ No more tear ( Johnson & Johnson)
_ Bad blood (Theranos)
What's should be my next read?
Also on a different note, reading about Big Pharma and the shady stuffs they did to shove medications down our throats really left me disguested. Any good books that would give me back the faith in medical field? So you know I dont end up like some antivax, anti-science nutjob?
Thanks!
by JustRice015
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>Books about bad businesses?
Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes
>Any good books that would give me back the faith in medical field? So you know I dont end up like some antivax, anti-science nutjob?
* Replaceable You by Mary Roach
* Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Kariko. This is a memoir by the scientist whose breakthrough made the covid mRNA vaccines possible.
* Plagues & Poxes by Alfred J. Bollett, MD. This is a more dense and textbook-like book. It’s not as easily readable, but very informative. It’s about historically significant diseases and how people went about studying them. Anti vaxxers and anti science types are, from what I have seen, ill informed on diseases themselves and believe they are all much milder than the experts say.
* The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson. This is a very easily readable book but it compromises on accuracy. The science is good, but for the sake of telling a more compelling story it plays up the “one special genius who did what no one else could see to do” which is a popular narrative among the anti vaxx and anti science crowd. In reality, if it wasn’t him, it would have been someone else.