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Full of spleen, this is a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad Science. When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an Aqua Detox footbath, releasing her toxins into the water, turning it brown, he thought hed try the same at home. Like some kind of Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General, using his girlfriends Barbie doll, he gently passed an electrical current through the warm salt water. It turned brown. In his words: before my very eyes, the worlds first Detox Barbie was sat, with her feet in a pool of brown sludge, purged of a weekends immorality. Dr Ben Goldacre is the author of the Bad Science column in the Guardian. His book is about all the bad science we are constantly bombarded with in the media and in advertising. At a time when science is used to prove everything and nothing, everyone has their own bad science moments from the useless pie-chart on the back of cereal packets to the use of the word visibly in cosmetics ads.