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Note: The Guardian accidentally edited this column such that the last paragraph contained an untrue statement. I have emailed the readers editor for a correction. Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday May 10 2008 So basically I sit here with a big bag of standard tools from the world of evidence, and wait for stories to come along which allow [...]
Like most people I generally can’t be bothered to protest or write huffy letters to my MP about things like embryonic stem cell science and animal-human hybrid embryo research, because I have a vague notion that nobody will listen to the religious fruitcakes anyway and it will all take care of itself. In the case of [...]
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday May 3 2008 Traditionally on May Day the fool plays at pratfalls and buffoonery around local morris dancers, brandishing his fool’s bauble, an inflated pig’s bladder on a stick, with which he bewitches and controls the crowds. To the uninitiated it looks like chaos, but for his own safety the fool must know [...]
Very briefly - because this kind of thing irritates me so much that I can’t be bothered to devote a great deal of time to it - in almost every single newspaper and media outlet today you will read about the Pixie Dust which helped a man’s finger grow back: “The man who grew a [...]
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday April 26 2008 And so our ongoing project to learn about evidence through nonsense enters its sixth improbable year. This week, the assembled celebrity community and vitamin pill industry will walk us through the pitfalls of reading through a systematic review and meta-analysis from the Cochrane Collaboration, an international not for profit organisation [...]
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday April 19 2008 Paranormal phenomena are on the rise this spring, as any viewer of Street Psychic, Most Haunted Live, The Psychic Detective, Psychic Investigators, Mystic Challenge, and Psychic School would know. In Durham, Easington district council has paid for psychic Suzanne Hadwin to exorcise a poltergeist from the home of one of [...]
Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 12th April, 2008 If you put aside the fact that most of the people who campaign against food additives should be taken out and shot for crimes against the enlightenment, even a stopped clock shows the right time twice a day, and the evidence overall genuinely shows that some food additives probably aren’t [...]
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday April 5 2008 There’s this vague idea - which has been going around for the past few centuries - that statistics is quite difficult. But in reality the maths is often the least of your problems: the tricky bit comes way before the number crunching, when you are deciding what to measure, how [...]
Newsnight do Brain Gym, and Paxman interviews the man who invented it.
Busy bee today, sorry for the late link, the second part of the BBC Radio 4 two-part series “The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists” is going out at 8pm this evening, presented by yours truly (part one here) and produced by the excellently sharp Rami Tzabar from the BBC Radio Science Unit. I think [...]
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 29 2008 And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale - don’t switch off now, the punchline’s funny. The county council said it was doing a “trial” of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed so that it couldn’t possibly [...]
Well, very excitingly - to me - the first half of my two-parter on Radio 4 went out over the airwaves last night. You can listen to it here: Part 2 is here. It’s Radio 4’s “Choice of the Day” for Monday
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Monday March 24 2008 [This is much longer than the Guardian version] Making a show for radio 4 on the history of diet fads [tonight Monday 24th at 8pm listen again here], I began to wonder what our modern gurus will come out with, when the cheques are all cashed, and the companies fold. Dudley [...]
No column this week, sorry about that, I forgot that Jesus died for our sins yesterday so I couldn’t give the company I was writing about a fair chance to respond. The story will pop up later as a bigger feature. In the meantime, no matter how hard I try to be bored of quackery, the [...]
I’m presenting a show on Radio 4 this Easter Monday at 8pm (24th March) looking at the history of miracle nutrition cures, woven in with the history of genuine research into food and nutrition. I think it’s quite good fun, although hearing a trailer last night - where the man from radio 4 speaks a [...]
You will remember Nadine Dorries MP, anti-abortion campaigner. She was heavily involved in promoting those dubious pre-term survival figures which were presented to the Science and Technology Select Committe enquiry, an
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 15 2008 Doctors love pills: so do the public, and the media, and of course so do pill companies. When one pill dies, another must take its place. Are you feeling tired? Demotivated? I bet you are. But there is a solution - a pill - pushed by no less than Dr [...]
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 8 2008 It was gratifying to see - after only a one-week delay - the government announcing that they would follow my suggestion on the comment pages last week, and demand that drug companies disclose all trial data, to make sure they’re not hiding anything. This has been pegged to the issue [...]
Just a brief post on how gratifying it is to see the government obediently doing exactly what I told them to and announcing plans to ensure that all drug company trial data is registered and disclosed. The MHRA press release is below so that you can bathe in unmediated news.
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