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- Ben Goldacre: Here’s the foreword to my new book, Bad Pharma http://www.badscience.net/2012/09/heres-the-intro-to-my-new-book/ 85 comments
- Sell the problem _and_ the solution... http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/the-medicalisation-of-everyday-life/ 3 comments
- To all those people who think the proposed IPR revisions and upholding big pharma patents is a good thing, I urge you to read these. http://www.badscience.net/2009/09/please-give-us-all-your-money/ 59 comments india
- "The true scale of this murderous disaster only fully reveals itself when the details are untangled. Good science has been perverted on an industrial scale, but this has happened slowly, and evolved naturally, over time." Foreword to Ben Goldacre's new book, Bad Pharma http://www.badscience.net/2012/09/heres-the-intro-to-my-new-book/ 10 comments science
- Kids who spot bullshit, and the adults who get upset about it http://www.badscience.net/2011/06/kids-who-spot-bullshit-and-the-adults-who-get-upset-about-it?1 108 comments science
- “None of your damn business”: In 2004 the Annals of Thoracic Surgery published a study comparing two heart drugs. This week it was retracted. When asked why the paper was retracted, the editor of ATS replied:“It’s none of your damn business.” http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/none-of-your-damn-business/ 96 comments science
- Ben Goldacre: Evidence based smear campaigns - disturbingly, far from changing peoples’ minds, if you are deeply entrenched in your views, a correction will only reinforce them http://www.badscience.net/2010/05/evidence-based-smear-campaigns/ 8 comments science
- Bad Science: his is the “missing chapter” about vitamin pill salesman Matthias Rath. Sadly I was unable to write about him at the time that book was initially published, as he was suing my ass in the High Court. http://www.badscience.net/category/bant/ 11 comments science
- The caveat in paragraph number 19 - or how to efficiently hide the fact that your news article is lying http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/the-caveat-in-paragraph-number-19/ 11 comments science
- Juries punish people less harshly when they harm more people - A curious (and depressing) finding from a study in both the lab and the real world. http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/empathy/ 185 comments science
- Bad Science - Blind prejudice http://www.badscience.net/2010/09/blind-prejudice/ 5 comments science
- Yeah well you can prove anything with science http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/yeah-well-you-can-prove-anything-with-science/ 37 comments science
- Fish oil in the Observer: the return of a $2bn friend http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/the-return-of-a-2bn-fishy-friend/ 3 comments science
- Homeopathy is merely the tip of the iceberg - many conventional medicines do not do what their manufacturers claim and regulators and the medical establishment are failing to examine drug company's claims. http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/obvious-quacks-the-tip-of-a-scary-medical-iceberg/ 49 comments science
- Ben Goldacre speculates on why about half the British population doesn't believe in man-made climate change http://www.badscience.net/2009/12/copenhagen-climate-change-blah-blah/ 11 comments science
- British police wants DNA database of everyone who has been arrested, but not convicted of a crime. They argue that innocent people who have been arrested are as likely to commit crimes in the future as guilty people...WTF!? http://www.badscience.net/2009/07/is-this-a-joke/ 335 comments worldnews
- Bad Science: This is my column. This is my column on drugs. Any questions? http://www.badscience.net/2009/06/this-is-my-column-this-is-my-column-on-drugs-any-questions/ 26 comments science
- Bad Science: Steorn perpetual motion machine, amazingly, may not work: independent jury of 22 scientists and engineers resigns http://www.badscience.net/2009/06/steorn-perpetual-motion-co-s-independent-jury-runs-out-of-energy/#more-1233 13 comments science
- Bad Science: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist. Susan Greenfield has explained, when criticised for a lack of clarity, a lack of evidence and an excess of panic, that [her stories] are merely ideas, speculations and hypotheses http://www.badscience.net/2009/05/professor-baroness-susan-greenfield-cbe/ 3 comments science
- Ben Goldacre on Swine Flu and the Media Coverage http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/parmageddon/ 3 comments worldnews
- Not only have the public lost all faith in the media; not only do so many people assume, now, that they are being misled; but more than that, the media themselves have lost all confidence in their own ability to give us the facts. http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/parmageddon/ 4 comments reddit.com
- Experts say new scientific evidence helpfully justifies massive pre-existing moral prejudice. http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/experts-say-new-scientific-evidence-helpfully-justifies-massive-pre-existing-moral-prejudice/ 20 comments science
- Now that the lawsuit has been dropped, previously unpublished Bad Science chapter on Matthias Rath available free. http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/ 5 comments reddit.com
- Hundreds of thousands of lives, perhaps millions, have been lost because of a stupid idea, promoted by stupid people. Just don’t let anyone tell you pseudoscience is harmless. http://www.badscience.net/2009/01/what-if-everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-aids-was-wrong/? 191 comments science
- Ben Goldacre's round up of Bad Science in 2008 http://www.badscience.net/2008/12/the-year-in-bad-science-2/ 5 comments science
- Journalists have systematically mislead the public about MMR and autism http://www.badscience.net/2008/12/its-not-my-fault-i-fall-into-repetitive-self-parody-you-started-it/ 2 comments science
- Get a degree in bullshit! http://www.badscience.net/2008/11/hot-foul-air/#more-824 2 comments science
- All time classic creationist pwnage http://www.badscience.net/2008/06/all-time-classic-creationist-pwnage/ 3 comments science
- Insane Californian inventor of the pseudoscientific "Brain Gym" for school children gets taken to task by a British news presenter, hilarity ensues. http://www.badscience.net/?p=652 153 comments science
- The stupid, it burns! Alternative therapy at its very best. http://www.badscience.net/?p=642 122 comments science
- If you don't laugh, you'll cry: The media cannot get science stories right. http://www.badscience.net/?p=610 131 comments reddit.com
- The end of homeopathy? http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/a-kind-of-magic/ 2 comments reddit.com
- "More and more, empty 'science' stories are being generated by public relations companies..." (and of course showing up on Reddit) http://www.badscience.net/?p=316 38 comments science
- Imaginary numbers - “Jessica Alba has the perfect wiggle, study says” http://www.badscience.net/?p=520 4 comments science
- Bad science: pink, pink, pink, pink. Pink moan. http://www.badscience.net/?p=518 59 comments science
- Ranking of swear words by severity http://www.badscience.net/?p=228 159 comments reddit.com
- Bad Science » Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children http://www.badscience.net/?p=418 2 comments science
- Serial killer or 'lottery' winner? How statistics can be a dangerous tool http://www.badscience.net/?p=392 23 comments science
- The bad science of drug prohibition http://www.badscience.net/?p=273#more-273 7 comments reddit.com
- antioxidants good for you? any evidence? http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#more-257 6 comments reddit.com