January 26th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre
in adverts, bad science, medicalisation, neurostuff, regulating research | 59 Comments »
Ben Goldacre
The Guardian,
Saturday January 26 2008
If there’s one thing I love, it’s academics who take on the work of investigative journalism, because they are dogged. This has been a bad week for the SSRI antidepressants. Read the rest of this entry »
November 17th, 2007 by Ben Goldacre
in bad science, cash-for-"stories", neurostuff | 19 Comments »
Ben Goldacre
The Guardian
Saturday November 17 2007
Obviously we’re all interested in who the next US president is going to be, since it affects our risk of being blown up on the bus to work. According to the New York Times – which has covered this story at least three times – a commercial company which specialises in giving brain images to advertisers has discovered which parts of a voter’s brain are most activated by different candidates, by taking pictures of their brains while they supposedly think about them. Read the rest of this entry »
