Imploding Researchers

September 24th, 2005 by Ben Goldacre in PhDs, doctors, and qualifications, alternative medicine, bad science, magnets, very basic science, water | 30 Comments »

The Guardian | Saturday September 24 2005
Ben Goldacre
The au pair said something very funny about my dinner parties the other day: oh hang on, wrong column. Didn’t they tell you? We’re all written by the same person. So I’ve been reading the BBC’s Read the rest of this entry »

Bad Science in Guardian.co.uk Top 5

September 18th, 2005 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, letters | 11 Comments »

Comment: Editor’s week
Emily Bell, Saturday September 17, 2005, The Read the rest of this entry »

Of big TVs and magic cows

September 17th, 2005 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, very basic science | 13 Comments »

Ben Goldacre
Saturday September 17, 2005
The Guardian

Welcome to Bad Science, where we catch, dissect, and then publicly flog the fools and frauds who talk nonsense about science. From cosmetics adverts, to alternative therapists, to flaky journalists and their Read the rest of this entry »

Letters in Guardian about Dumb Me Down

September 9th, 2005 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, letters, statistics | 1 Comment »

9th September, 2005
Does Ben Goldacre (Life, September 8) have any peer reviewed papers with statistical proof that “humanities graduates” are so woefully Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t dumb me down

September 8th, 2005 by Ben Goldacre in MMR, PhDs, doctors, and qualifications, adverts, alternative medicine, bad science, bbc, cash-for-"stories", channel 4, channel five, chocolate, dangers, express, gillian mckeith, independent, letters, mail, media, mirror, references, scare stories, statistics, telegraph, times, very basic science, weight loss | 81 Comments »

We laughed, we cried, we learned about statistics … Ben Goldacre on why writing Bad Science has increased his suspicion of the media by, ooh, a lot of per cents

Ben Goldacre
Thursday September 8, 2005
The Guardian

OK, here’s something weird. Every week in Bad Science we either victimise some barking pseudoscientific quack, or a big science story in a national newspaper. Now, tell me, why are these two groups even being mentioned in the same breath? Why is science in the media so often pointless, simplistic, boring, or just plain wrong? Like a proper little Darwin, I’ve been Read the rest of this entry »

Never as bad as it looks

September 1st, 2005 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, hate mail, letters, scare stories, statistics, times, water | 15 Comments »

Ben Goldacre
Thursday September 1, 2005
The Guardian

· “One of Britain’s most widely prescribed antidepressants has been linked to a seven-fold increase in suicide attempts.” Hold the front page! Oh hang on, it’s on Read the rest of this entry »