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An exposé on Big Pharma and the American healthcare system’s zeal for excessive medical testing, from a nationally recognized expert
More screening doesn’t lead to better health—but can turn healthy people into patients.
Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine,...
More screening doesn’t lead to better health—but can turn healthy people into patients.
Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine,...
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"Science is how we understand the world. Yet critical flaws in peer review, statistical methods, and publication procedures have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless-or worse, badly misleading. Drawing on surprising new data from "meta-science" (the science of how science works), Science Fictions documents the errors that have distorted our knowledge on issues as varied as cancer biology, nutrition, genetics, immigration, education,...
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For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn't understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn't care. He just can't believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relieved...
6) Dark places
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Years after several of her family members were killed, a woman is invited to a meeting of a group interested in re-enacting the crime and sets off her own investigation into her brother's guilt or innocence.
7) Redemption
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Decker is visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by a man named Meryl Hawkins. Hawkins is a convicted murderer. In fact, he's the very first killer Decker ever put behind bars. But he's innocent, he claims. Now suffering from terminal cancer, it's his dying wish that Decker clear his name. It's unthinkable. The case was open and shut, with rock solid forensic evidence. But then Hawkins later turns up dead with a bullet in...
9) Brian Banks
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The story of Brian Banks, an American football player, who was falsely accused of rape and spent almost six years in prison.
10) Papillon
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After being framed for murder and sentenced to life in a French prison, a safecracker forms a friendship with a counterfeiter who agrees to help him escape in return for protection.
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"At age sixteen, Brian Banks was a happy, popular high school junior--and a nationally recruited All-American Football player, ranked eleventh in the nation as a linebacker. But before his seventeenth birthday, he was in jail, awaiting trial on charges of a heinous sexual assault he did not commit. As a young black man accused of rape, he faced almost certain conviction. Despite being innocent, Brian took a plea and was sentenced as an adult to six...
12) The innocent
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Matt Hunter, released from prison for accidentally killing someone when breaking up a fight, has his life back on track--a beautiful, pregnant wife, and a pending deal on the house of his dreams--until he receives bizarre photographs that send him running from the law.
13) Arthur & George
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Chronicles the lives of two boys--one who is forgotten by history, and one who becomes the creator of the world's most famous detective--as they pursue their separate destinies until they meet in a remarkable alliance.
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