Ben Goldacre
Thursday July 28, 2005
The Guardian

· Last week I asked: what’s the most stupid thing anyone has said to you about science at a party? And it would seem that the great British sport of moron-baiting is Read the rest of this entry »

Ben Goldacre
Thursday July 21, 2005
The Guardian

· In our eagerness to focus on the supply side of pseudoscience - the dismal outpourings of flaky humanities graduates in the media and the bogus pseudoscience of people with products to sell - we’ve neglected an important area of study: the impact on the end market. Take this from reader Richard Read the rest of this entry »

Ben Goldacre
Thursday July 14, 2005
The Guardian

Talk about bad science here.
· And so our highly improbable Popular Statistics with Sperm series continues: I’ve locked myself in the Bad Science office with two weeks’ worth of baked beans and they haven’t been able to sack me yet. This week we look at Read the rest of this entry »

Ben Goldacre
Thursday July 7, 2005
The Guardian

· There I was two weeks ago, making sarcastic jokes about how Bad Science was just a cover for the [coughs] popular statistics lecture series I secretly yearned to give, and now I’m about to try to explain funnel plots to you, in a national newspaper, and without any diagrams. Here we go. Publication bias makes the Read the rest of this entry »