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Url:http://badscience.net/
Author(s):Ben Goldacre
Language:English
Tags:science, pseudoscience, media
Description:Ben Goldacre's Bad Science columns from the Guardian and more.
Ratings (41 Ratings)
Popularity:211 Followers

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The greatest show on earth
Ooh, starting tomorrow is this year’s run of our amazing super-nerd-comedy-musical spectacular Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People. It’s a galaxy of stars, Richard Dawkins, Johnny Ball, Barr...more
2009-12-14
Copenhagen climate change blah blah
Sorry, this felt a bit rushed and PollyFillaesque, I hope it’s vaguely interesting…Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 12 December 2009So as we career towards a mediocre outcome in Copenhagen, why...more
2009-12-11
Criticising the GM industry
I just finished recording Any Questions on Radio 4 (you can hear the programme here). Since it was recorded in a pesticides research base, I was hoping for a question on GM, because there’s an inte...more
2009-12-11
Libel Reform
Yesterday morning I helped to launch the libel reform campaign in parliament with Index on Censorship, English PEN and Sense About Science. To be fair, the best line came the day before at the cele...more
2009-12-10
So brillliantly you’ve presented a really transgressive case through the mainstream media
Ben Goldacre, Saturday 5 December 2009, The GuardianHere is a mystery. Rom Houben, a Belgian man, was diagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years, and he has now made a partial recovery. This has bee...more
2009-12-04
By me in the BMJ: the dodginess of drug company trials
Here’s a piece by me in the British Medical Journal this week, published online already, and in the print edition this Friday. It’s a head to head with Vincent Lawton, who until recently was head o...more
2009-12-01
2 like it:
Marilyn Mann

All bow before the mighty power of the nocebo effect
Ben Goldacre, Saturday 28 November 2009, The GuardianThis week the parliamentary science and technology select committee looked into the evidence behind the MHRA’s decision to allow homeopathy suga...more
2009-11-27
1 like it:
Craig Mullenbach

Parliamentary Science and Technology Select Committee on homeopathy today
I gave evidence at the Parliamentary SciTech committtee today for their enquiry into whether the government had used scientific evidence properly in making their decisions about MHRA licenses for h...more
2009-11-25
Oh, that was quick
Ben Goldacre, Saturday 21 November 2009, The GuardianOnce your medicines regulator decides it should change the side effects warnings on the patient information of a drug taken by millions of peopl...more
2009-11-20
1 like it:
Marilyn Mann

wtf?
Ben Goldacre, Saturday 14 November 2009, The GuardianIt’s always interesting when people take pseudoscience out of its natural habitat – Islington – and off into a place where the stakes are quite ...more
2009-11-13
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Craig Mullenbach

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Angela ButterworthOct 3, 2008

Hi Dr Ben
I enjoyed your Skeptic's Guide interview very much.
Your blog is clear and very interesting to read.

Angela
 

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