I mean ... parent was talking about Bad Science, Ben's first book in 2008. You seem to be comparing his second book, Bad Pharma (2012) with Marcia Angell's 'Tr

I mean ... parent was talking about Bad Science, Ben's first book in 2008. You seem to be comparing his second book, Bad Pharma (2012) with Marcia Angell's 'Truth About the Drug Companies' (2005), and assuming some claimed disparity in popularity is down to author gender. It may be that new readers will pick a more recent publication, assuming it to be more contemporary. Or that they're (more) familiar with someone that had generated a large online following. (I think that's why I picked up his book, but had not heard of Marcia Angell.) OTOH I'm not sure what '"skeptics" hated' refers to. Looking now on Amazon (I am not happy about visiting this site) both are showing 4.6 / 5.0 ratings. On Goodreads Bad Pharma is showing 4.1 compared to Truth with 3.95 (but that's a pretty tight race).