Kyle Harrison
to-read
Trick or Treatment
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine
- Author
- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
- Published
- 2008
- Pages
- 352
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Singh and Ernst put acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic and herbal medicine against the trial evidence — and explain how the trial itself came to be the test.
Where I saw it: In the reply thread to @WillManidis’s question, “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” (June 2, 2025) — a crowd-sourced list Kyle recovered by hand and saved to his Apple Note “Books To Read”; the full set of replies lives on what is the single best book… (tweet). It was listed there as “Trick or Treatment”.
Connections
- Science — The method the book applies.
- Healthcare — The industry in question.
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.