Here are nine celebrities who have pushed dangerously bad science on the public

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1. I just finished reading Ben Goldacre's 2012 book 'Bad Science' last night.

He wrote a very good series of columns for The Guardian a few years ago on scientific inaccuracy, health scares and pseudoscience, and has a website that goes into a lot of detail (badscience.net), especially in the medical area. Excellent examination of how really bad media coverage helps to perpetrate a lot of these fabrications and creates false impressions of what various research papers are really saying.

Just found a Wikipedia article that has a brief summary of each chapter. The book is definitely a worthwhile read, especially if you have friends or relatives that are always trying to spread the 'alternative woo'. I have a cousin that is always sending out all of the 'watermelon cures cancer' types of things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Science_(book)