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Listen carefully, I shall say this only once

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”...

Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 10-26-2008
More crap journals?

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.

Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 10-03-2008
Don’t let the facts spoil a good story

Oops sorry, in all the excitement about Matthias Rath I forgot to post last week’s column, here it is. Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday September 13 2008 Here is a cautionary tale for anyone working in research. “Captain Cook and Lord Nelson seem unlikely figureheads in the fight against...

Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 09-19-2008
The Medicalisation of Everyday Life

As the pace of medical innovation slows to a crawl, how do drug companies stay in profit? By ‘discovering’ new illnesses to fit existing products. But, says Ben Goldacre, in the second extract from his new book, for many problems the cure will never be found in a pill. Ben Goldacre The Guardian...

Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 08-31-2008
The media’s MMR hoax

This is an extract from my new book “Bad Science“, in the Guardian today. It’s out on Monday: my recommendation is that you buy it, and give it to someone who disagrees with you. Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday August 30 2008 Dr Andrew Wakefield is in front of the General Medical...

Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 08-29-2008
As far as I understand thinktanks….

Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday June 7 2008 It is with deep regret that I must alert you to a frightening decline in the quality of maths in reports complaining about the frightening decline in the quality of maths in Britain. “The value of mathematics”, by thinktank Reform, has received...

Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 06-07-2008
Blogs vs mainstream media

Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday May 31 2008 You will remember last week we were talking about the £2,000 Dore “miracle cure” for dyslexia, invented by paint entrepreneur Wynford Dore. It had been pushed unrelentingly in the media, despite multiple Ofcom and ITC judgements, and through...

Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 05-30-2008
The trial that never was.

Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 29 2008 And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale - don’t switch off now, the punchline’s funny. The county council said it was doing a “trial” of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed...

Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 03-28-2008

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