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Listing ID: 2123

Description: Guardian writer Ben Goldacre presents his column as a Weblog. The content is mainly about misrepresentation of science in the media.

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listed on: November 07, 2008 08:09:28 PM

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Podcast on government response to SciTech NHS homeopathy report - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:06:15 +0000

I zipped off this quick podcast from my phone on Monday and put it on my secondary blog, which I run for scrappy stuff. People seemed to like it a bit so I’m reposting here. There’s more audio stuff coming, a bit of video too, and I’ll work out good feeds and iTunes stuff over [...]

I love research about research - Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:01:00 +0000

Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 24 July 2010There is a pleasing symmetry in the ropey science you get from different players. When GlaxoSmithKline are confronted with an unflattering meta-analysis summarising the results of all 56 trials on one of their treatments, as we saw last week, their defense is to point at 7 positive trials, [...]

And then I was incompetently libelled by a litigious millionaire - Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:01:00 +0000

Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Monday 19 July 2010What do you do, as a campaigner for libel reform, when a litigious millionaire calls you a liar? This ethical quandary was presented to me last week when twitter account of Gillian McKeith – or to give her full medical title, “Gillian McKeith” – called my book “lies”.Now, [...]