Comments on: Evidence Based Prejudice http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/ Ben Goldacre's Bad Science column from the Guardian and more... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:36:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: jiangjiang http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-2/#comment-29683 jiangjiang Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:13:21 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-29683 ed hardy <a title="ed hardy" href="http://www.edhardyplus.com" rel="nofollow"><strong>ed hardy</strong></a> ed hardy clothing <a title="ed hardy clothing" href="http://www.edhardyplus.com" rel="nofollow"><strong>ed hardy clothing</strong></a> ed hardy shop <a title="ed hardy shop" href="http://www.edhardyplus.com" rel="nofollow"><strong>ed hardy shop</strong></a> christian audigier <a title="christian audigier" href="http://www.edhardyplus.com/christian-audigier.html" rel="nofollow"><strong>christian audigier</strong></a> ed hardy cheap <a title="ed hardy cheap" href="http://www.edhardyplus.com" rel="nofollow"><strong>ed hardy cheap</strong></a> ed hardy outlet <a title="ed hardy outlet" href="http://www.edhardyplus.com" rel="nofollow"><strong>ed hardy outlet</strong></a> ed hardy sale <a title="ed hardy clothes" href="http://www.edhardyplus.com" rel="nofollow"><strong>ed hardy sale</strong></a> ed hardy store <a title="ed hardy store" href="http://www.edhardyplus.com" rel="nofollow"><strong>ed hardy store</strong></a> ed hardy mens <a title="ed hardy mens" href="http://www.edhardyplus.com/ed-hardy-mens.html" rel="nofollow"><strong>ed hardy mens</strong></a> ed hardy womens <a title="ed hardy womens" href="http://www.edhardyplus.com/ed-hardy-womens.html" rel="nofollow"><strong>ed hardy womens</strong></a> ed hardy kids <a title="ed hardy kids" href="http://www.edhardyplus.com/kids.html" rel="nofollow"><strong>ed hardy kids</strong></a> ed hardy kids ed hardy ed hardy
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]]> By: igb http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-2/#comment-6561 igb Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:55:26 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6561 To answer the question of how much potato salad a man can eat, enough to consume 4 fl oz of oil while making the the mayo would be the answer... To answer the question of how much potato salad a man can eat, enough to consume 4 fl oz of oil while making the the mayo would be the answer…

]]> By: Melissa http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-2/#comment-6545 Melissa Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:45:57 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6545 Eeeeeeee, a Bad Science Top Trumps game would be such fun!!! We could do Bad Scientists throughout history, each holding an iconic representation of their most famous bad science theories! Er, I guess I don't have to mention what McTeeth would be holding. ;) Eeeeeeee, a Bad Science Top Trumps game would be such fun!!! We could do Bad Scientists throughout history, each holding an iconic representation of their most famous bad science theories!

Er, I guess I don’t have to mention what McTeeth would be holding. ;)

]]> By: Nurn http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-2/#comment-6540 Nurn Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:16:57 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6540 We're all still looking for the magic bullet, then? We’re all still looking for the magic bullet, then?

]]> By: coffeespoons http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-2/#comment-6534 coffeespoons Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:44:52 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6534 can anyone tell me where to find studies on omega-3 freely available on the net? just stopped being a student so no longer have access to scifinder etc......... thanks! can anyone tell me where to find studies on omega-3 freely available on the net? just stopped being a student so no longer have access to scifinder etc………
thanks!

]]> By: Robert Carnegie http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-2/#comment-6516 Robert Carnegie Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:27:32 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6516 Oh dear, I didn't mean to get at your Web site! I was thinking of theirs! As for flax seed oil as an ingredient... I'm sure you'll make an informed choice. As for your Web site... I was going to say "What an elegantly restrained design" and then the grey-blue washy background image finished loading! :-) But it is a very presentable showcase. Seen from the other side it may be less aesthetic. I did just quite like a dark blue and plain white style! I think in the Opera browser I only see page backgrounds if I want to! ...Trumps as in Roger Zelazny's Amber? But wouldn't Top Trumps be even more fun? ;-) ...we should have a Bad Science Top Trumps card game, and I'm sure an artist's contribution would be invaluable! :-) Oh dear, I didn’t mean to get at your Web site! I was thinking of theirs!

As for flax seed oil as an ingredient… I’m sure you’ll make an informed choice.

As for your Web site… I was going to say “What an elegantly restrained design” and then the grey-blue washy background image finished loading! :-) But it is a very presentable showcase. Seen from the other side it may be less aesthetic. I did just quite like a dark blue and plain white style! I think in the Opera browser I only see page backgrounds if I want to!

…Trumps as in Roger Zelazny’s Amber? But wouldn’t Top Trumps be even more fun? ;-)

…we should have a Bad Science Top Trumps card game, and I’m sure an artist’s contribution would be invaluable! :-)

]]> By: Melissa http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-2/#comment-6506 Melissa Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:49:58 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6506 It's true, my website is a glass house. :) I'm now wondering if I should buy some flax seed oil to add to my toddler's food so his little brain will be sure to develop correctly. (Yes, I'm a paranoid parent, but I did give him the MMR.) It’s true, my website is a glass house. :)

I’m now wondering if I should buy some flax seed oil to add to my toddler’s food so his little brain will be sure to develop correctly. (Yes, I’m a paranoid parent, but I did give him the MMR.)

]]> By: Robert Carnegie http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-2/#comment-6504 Robert Carnegie Sun, 02 Jul 2006 21:50:56 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6504 As for Web site design, let he or she who is W3C compliant, accessibility-certified, and Plain English-approved cast the first stone. As for Web site design, let he or she who is W3C compliant, accessibility-certified, and Plain English-approved cast the first stone.

]]> By: kim http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-1/#comment-6503 kim Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:14:01 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6503 Well, igb, all I would say about your mayonnaise is that in the current see-saw of opinion about eggs, eggs = good for you. So enjoy it while you can. I suspect whatever oil you're using probably isn't that bad either, and may even be positively good. Anyway, you're hardly likely to be devouring it in large quantities - how much potato salad can one person eat? Well, igb, all I would say about your mayonnaise is that in the current see-saw of opinion about eggs, eggs = good for you. So enjoy it while you can. I suspect whatever oil you’re using probably isn’t that bad either, and may even be positively good. Anyway, you’re hardly likely to be devouring it in large quantities – how much potato salad can one person eat?

]]> By: Melissa http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-1/#comment-6502 Melissa Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:22:42 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6502 Although jeering at a heinous assortment of multiple fonts and pointsizes is entirely justified. Although jeering at a heinous assortment of multiple fonts and pointsizes is entirely justified.

]]> By: Robert Carnegie http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-1/#comment-6501 Robert Carnegie Sun, 02 Jul 2006 11:35:50 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6501 Omega 3 may be very popular with the Brain Gym faction, but that doesn't mean that it isn't going to turn out to be a useful strand of nutrition science, or that it isn't being tested with proper scientific rigour - so our reflex of jeering at any novel claim set in scientific terms should be restrained. Omega 3 may be very popular with the Brain Gym faction, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t going to turn out to be a useful strand of nutrition science, or that it isn’t being tested with proper scientific rigour – so our reflex of jeering at any novel claim set in scientific terms should be restrained.

]]> By: igb http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-1/#comment-6500 igb Sun, 02 Jul 2006 10:42:45 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6500 Tessa K refers to Flax Seed Oil. In a moment of madness, I bought a bottle of `Good Oil' (sic) from Waitrose, whose front label says ``A pure natural oil of cold-pressed hemp seed NUTTY NUTRITIOUS TASTES DELICIOUS Good for salads pasta and vegetables A UNIQUE BALANCE OF OMEGA 3, 6 AND 9 USE LIKE AN OLIVE OIL''. I won't attempt to reproduce the ``It's 1986 and I've just bought a Mac'' assortment of fonts and pointsizes. I bought it because I was getting fed up with making mayonnaise that tastes powerfully of olive oil, and although my rational side says that anything involving an egg and half a pint of oil is a health no-no, using decent olive oil is slightly less catastrophic than some of the alternatives. It tastes like concentrated groundnut oil, it burns as soon as you look at it (OK, to be fair, it didn't mention cooking purposes but then it says use like an olive oil) and it costs about the twice the price of decent quality generic cold-pressed olive oil. That mix of Omega 3, 6 and 9 had better be worth something, because from a culinary point of view it's hard to see the justification. Tessa K refers to Flax Seed Oil. In a moment of madness, I bought a bottle of `Good Oil’ (sic) from Waitrose, whose front label says “A pure natural oil of cold-pressed hemp seed NUTTY NUTRITIOUS TASTES DELICIOUS Good for salads pasta and vegetables A UNIQUE BALANCE OF OMEGA 3, 6 AND 9 USE LIKE AN OLIVE OIL”. I won’t attempt to reproduce the “It’s 1986 and I’ve just bought a Mac” assortment of fonts and pointsizes. I bought it because I was getting fed up with making mayonnaise that tastes powerfully of olive oil, and although my rational side says that anything involving an egg and half a pint of oil is a health no-no, using decent olive oil is slightly less catastrophic than some of the alternatives.

It tastes like concentrated groundnut oil, it burns as soon as you look at it (OK, to be fair, it didn’t mention cooking purposes but then it says use like an olive oil) and it costs about the twice the price of decent quality generic cold-pressed olive oil. That mix of Omega 3, 6 and 9 had better be worth something, because from a culinary point of view it’s hard to see the justification.

]]> By: davoid http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-1/#comment-6493 davoid Sat, 01 Jul 2006 06:14:50 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6493 The thing is, no-one knows what makes us age, and the free radical thing is so attractively elegant an explanation. But that is the black box that so much alternative therapy exploits, e.g. free radicals may make us age, antioxidants can reduce free radical activity and damage in vitro, but (black box) we don't know whether they reduce it in vivo, and certainly don't know that they can extend lifespan. The consensus so far, using single compounds, is that they can't. The thing is, no-one knows what makes us age, and the free radical thing is so attractively elegant an explanation. But that is the black box that so much alternative therapy exploits, e.g. free radicals may make us age, antioxidants can reduce free radical activity and damage in vitro, but (black box) we don’t know whether they reduce it in vivo, and certainly don’t know that they can extend lifespan. The consensus so far, using single compounds, is that they can’t.

]]> By: E.Obie http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-1/#comment-6491 E.Obie Sat, 01 Jul 2006 03:04:02 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6491 Sorry if this has already been covered, but I belve that the "the single biggest medical project ever undertaken" was not the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial but rahter the Polio Vaccine Trial in the US that enrolled about 1.8 million kids. Sorry if this has already been covered, but I belve that the “the single biggest medical project ever undertaken” was not the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial but rahter the Polio Vaccine Trial in the US that enrolled about 1.8 million kids.

]]> By: Jellytussle http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-1/#comment-6489 Jellytussle Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:20:23 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6489 hehe *wobbles* hehe

*wobbles*

]]> By: Delster http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-1/#comment-6487 Delster Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:56:29 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6487 the worlds first human invertebrate..... the worlds first human invertebrate…..

]]> By: Dave M http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-1/#comment-6486 Dave M Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:09:35 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6486 You sold your actual skeleton!? Is that where the Jelly part of Jellytussle comes from. You sold your actual skeleton!?

Is that where the Jelly part of Jellytussle comes from.

]]> By: Jellytussle http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-1/#comment-6485 Jellytussle Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:25:04 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6485 Yeah. nostalgia. I covered my costs when I sold my skeleton to some poor sap for 250 quid. Same guy that bought Stryer in fact. Yeah. nostalgia. I covered my costs when I sold my skeleton to some poor sap for 250 quid. Same guy that bought Stryer in fact.

]]> By: Ben Goldacre http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-1/#comment-6484 Ben Goldacre Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:40:55 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6484 suddenly i feel like i have gravitas: mine was a blue third edition, and when i bought the fucker in 1992 it cost me a week's rent. made a bum investment with the black second edition of berne and levy's physiology just before the white third came out too. i cannot believe the scale of the proustian rush this discussion has elicited in me. suddenly i feel like i have gravitas: mine was a blue third edition, and when i bought the fucker in 1992 it cost me a week’s rent. made a bum investment with the black second edition of berne and levy’s physiology just before the white third came out too.

i cannot believe the scale of the proustian rush this discussion has elicited in me.

]]> By: Jellytussle http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/257/comment-page-1/#comment-6483 Jellytussle Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:28:53 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/?p=257#comment-6483 When I bought my Stryer in 1990 it was blue. Happily sold it in 1993 having read very little. Alberts, which I bought in 1987 was a much better book. When I bought my Stryer in 1990 it was blue. Happily sold it in 1993 having read very little. Alberts, which I bought in 1987 was a much better book.

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