October 26th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in badscience, regulating research | 16 Comments »
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”.
So the ClinPsyc blog (clinpsyc.blogspot.com ) has spotted that the drug company Lilly have published identical data on duloxetine - a new-ish antidepressant drug – twice over, in two entirely separate scientific papers. Read the rest of this entry »
October 15th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in onanism | 20 Comments »
I’ve got a couple of talks coming up in the next while, and I’m posting them here for people who don’t read the miniblog on the right hand side of the page (it’s the best thing about this site, much better than my rambling blog posts) and aren’t members of the miraculous facebook group which Shalinee Singh very kindly helps to update. Read the rest of this entry »
October 8th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in teaching resources | 34 Comments »
A couple of years ago I made a bunch of school resources for teachers with the organisation NESTA and a group of teachers. Since I mentioned them in the book a couple of people have asked for them, so here they are: Read the rest of this entry »
October 7th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in book reviews, book, onanism | 25 Comments »
Reproduced cheekily below. He’s Arthur Smith’s brother, don’t you know. Read the rest of this entry »
October 4th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in publication bias, mondo academico, regulating research, MMR, bad science | 19 Comments »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
October 2nd, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in book reviews, book, onanism, telegraph, bad science | 10 Comments »
There’s a very nice review of my book “Bad Science” in the Telegraph this week. I have to say I’m delighted to see that the two newspapers I’ve probably been meanest about over recent years are the two that have reviewed it so far. This betrays a genuinely wholesome grown up approach to life which properly warms the cockles of my heart.
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October 2nd, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in bad science | 12 Comments »
Here is the review of my book in “The Homeopath”, esteemed journal of the Society of Homeopaths:
Oh no, hang on, there isn’t one.
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