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Podcast title	Bad Science
Website URL	http://www.badscience.net
Description	Ben Goldacre's Bad Science column from the Guardian and more...
Updated	Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:50:15 +0000
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1. The Daily Telegraph misrepresent a scientist’s work, then refuse to correct it when he writes to them. http://www.badscience.net/2009... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: People in the “public engagement” community often talk about how scientists should do more to communicate with the media. I take a different line: scientists have good grounds to be extremely nervous, and some entities and journalists could quite fairly be blacklisted. Here’s just one more example. It doesn’t stand out, I get sent plenty every [...]
2. The barefaced cheek of these characters will never cease to amaze and delight me. http://www.badscience.net/2009... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Greeetings to listeners of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. About 20 minutes ago I was on the show talking about detox nonsense. Nas Amir Ahmadi of detoxinabox.com denied the rather foolish contents of her own website, and confidently claimed that I must be thinking of the wrong company. I read a quote. She [...]
3. What if everything you thought you knew about Aids was wrong? http://www.badscience.net/2009... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Sorry, up against it on time, I’ll post a longer version of this article with links later on x Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday 3 January 2009 Happy New Year and everything, but know this: nothing has changed, people continue to have stupid ideas, newspapers continue to laud them, and lives will be lost. Here is just one: [...]
4. The Year in Bad Science http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: It’s only when you line these jokers up side by side that you realise what a vast and unwinnable fight we face.
5. "Public opinion has moved sharply in favour of assisted suicide, according to a poll for The Sunday Times." http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I was delighted to discover this week that the Times have started an innovative new column entitled “Bad Statistics”. It seems to me to be somewhat lacking in thoroughness. I should like to submit for their consideration an article from the Sunday Times on the 14th of December. The opening sentence is: “Public opinion has moved [...]
6. "I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that…" and other excellent Christmas gifts. http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: It’s cold out there, why would you go shopping when you could just click here and have at least a third of your festive gift requirements sorted in five minutes, from the comfort of your very own springy buttock cheeks?
7. Transparent excuse for printing a nice pair of hooters http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Just to be clear, nobody listens to a word I say. More important equation news from the Sun this week, with the exciting headline “How to tell if the boobline is too low… use this equation 0=NP(20C+B)/75”. Alongside a photograph of poor old Britney with her boobs falling out.
8. Rather brilliantly I have been plagiarised by the Times… http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Who have a new column called… …ummm….
9. It’s not my fault I fall into repetitive self parody. You started it. http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday December 6 2008 Writing this column only really scares me because I wonder whether everything else in the media is as shamelessly, venally, manipulatively, one-sidedly, selectively reported on as the things I know about. I’m not going to go on about MMR again. But this week the reality editing was truly without comparison.
10. Scientific proof that we live in a warmer and more caring universe http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday November 29 2008 As usual, it’s not Watergate, it’s just slightly irritating. “Down’s births increase in a caring Britain”, said the Times: “More babies are being born with Down’s syndrome as parents feel increasingly that society is a more welcoming place for children with the condition.” That’s beautiful. “More mothers are choosing to [...]
11. Whinge moan http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Here is my slightly shite backup column. Apologies. I do, however, have something amazing up my sleeve for the next couple of days. Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday November 22 2008
12. You are 80% less likely to die from a meteor landing on your head if you wear a bicycle helmet all day. http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: We’re all suckers for a big number, and you’ll be delighted to hear that the Journal of Consumer Research has huge teams of scientists all eagerly writing up their sinister research on how to exploit us. One excellent study this month looked at how people choose a digital camera. This will become relevant in three paragraphs’ [...]
13. “Incapacitated” on Radio 4 http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: So I’ve got a documentary on Radio 4 at 8pm this evening on incapacity benefit, and it’s a bit of a veer from the norm, because it’s a subject where I’m not entirely sure what I think. Here’s why I care. I once sat drinking with a group of medics, arguing over what would be the [...]
14. “I married a horse” http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: * Ben Goldacre * The Guardian, Saturday November 8 2008 Last week I failed to distinguish satisfactorily between the fantastical miasmatic theory of disease in the middle ages and the fantastical miasmatic theory of disease as meant by some homeopaths. This made no difference to my argument - that [...]
15. Hot foul air http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 1st November 2008 Guy Ritchie has cancelled Madonna’s order for tens of thousands of pounds worth of special Kabbalah water to fill their swimming pool. It’s always uncomfortable when we have to humour someone close to us in the name of avoiding conflict. Right now in Thames Valley University, for example, entire science [...]
16. Listen carefully, I shall say this only once http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday October 25 2008 Welcome to nerds’ corner, and yet another small print criticism of a trivial act of borderline dubiousness which will ultimately lead to distorted evidence, irrational decisions, and bad outcomes in what I like to call “the real world”. So the ClinPsyc blog (clinpsyc.blogspot.com ) has spotted that the drug company Lilly [...]
17. A few talks coming up, Oxford, Cambridge, London http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’ve got a couple of talks coming up in the next while, and I’m posting them here for people who don’t read the miniblog on the right hand side of the page (it’s the best thing about this site, much better than my rambling blog posts) and aren’t members of the miraculous facebook group which [...]
18. Bad Science teaching resources for schools http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: A couple of years ago I made a bunch of school resources for teachers with the organisation NESTA and a group of teachers. Since I mentioned them in the book a couple of people have asked for them, so here they are:
19. Nice review of my book in the British Medical Journal by Richard Smith http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Reproduced cheekily below. He’s Arthur Smith’s brother, don’t you know.
20. More crap journals? http://www.badscience.net/2008... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday October 4 2008 Important and timely news from the Journal of Medical Hypotheses this week: ejaculating could be “a potential treatment of nasal congestion in mature males.” My reason for bothering you with this will become clear later.