Blogs about: Ben Goldacre
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What Prevents People From Eating a Healthier Diet?
I’ve been wondering what it is that so irritating about a certain type of food and health writer, the sort that moralises and pontificates about the food that the population should be eating. Me… more →
Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science
Developments in Homeopathy
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grammarking wrote 2 days ago: No, not as in actually good evidence that it works, we’re still waiting for that and I daresay … more →
Neither a denier nor a climate-change evangelist be
Jo the Hat wrote 3 days ago: The Earth. Like absolutely everybody else on our beautiful little planet I have no idea how our use … more →
The Darwin Birthday Spectacular @ The Lowry, Salford - 9th December 2009
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sherby57 wrote 1 week ago: The empty stage, so redolent of man's epic struggle for survival in the ongoing maelstrom of nat … more →
Parliamentary Science and Technology Select Committee makes homeopathy its bitch
mjr256 wrote 1 week ago: Not since the partnership of Hitchens and Fry has there been such an epic crushing of nonsense in a … more →
Homeopathic Review: Putting the Boot In
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Chris Kavanagh wrote 2 weeks ago: Repeat with banging Over the past week there has been an ongoing ’evidence check’ by th … more →
Press muse - Cynical studies
spiegel2071 wrote 2 weeks ago: Note: The original title of this post was “Trial and Tribulation”. Having thought about … more →
Confession time for Boots the chemist: homeopathy is crap
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skepticat wrote 3 weeks ago: It was a borderline decision for me whether it was worth getting out of bed early to sit in on the H … more →
Parliamentary Science and Technology Evidence check for Homeopathy
homeopathy4health wrote 3 weeks ago: Thanks to ‘Voice of (not so) Young Homeopathy’ for their comments on this week’s P … more →
UK Homeopathy Evidence Check
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Ian wrote 3 weeks ago: Check out the link below for a fascinating discussion about homeopathy featuring Ben Goldcare and Ed … more →
Bad history done better
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Jonathan Jarrett wrote 1 month ago: Still short on time to generate actual content here, I hope you’ll forgive a second post in a … more →
Revival
spiegel2071 wrote 1 month ago: Now then. There’s a sixteen-day gap in this blog which I might be reasonably expected to fill … more →
What does it mean to be a scientist?
organizationalscientist wrote 1 month ago: I write this blog not just because I want to be a scientist of organisations. I write it because I … more →
Ignorance, Manipulation, Naivety and Short Cuts... How a PR agency should NOT do it... Fuel PR caught with their trousers firmly around their ankles...
mohammedalibusiness wrote 1 month ago: There was once a time that I was recommended by a friend to look into applying for a “leading … more →
The truth about biscuits
jenniferbsimmons wrote 1 month ago: Thank you, The First Post, for uncovering the truth. Gordon Brown (poor chap; I mean, really – … more →
On air: Is there too much pressure on scientists ?
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Mark Sandell wrote 1 month ago: Here’s the story of the disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk. Before he was found out, h … more →
I have little to add, but...
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BrownhillsBob wrote 1 month ago: Regular readers with sharp minds may remember that way back in August, I took umbrage at Express … more →
Simon Singh and libel reform - how you can help
cubiksrube wrote 1 month ago: I hope I’m not too late with this. I was only just alerted to this post by Simon Perry, encour … more →
Twitter, Happier, More Productive - The Week of Weird
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pete485 wrote 1 month ago: Weird things have been happening recently. The first and main weird thing is that The Internet has t … more →
chuggers: Robin Hoods or real life spam?
mysterydonor wrote 2 months ago: I recently came across Guardian Bad Science columnist Ben Goldacre and his anti-chugger campaign (#c … more →
