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
It Ain't What You Give, It's the Way That You Give It: Q & A with Caroline Fiennes
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wrote 1 week ago: It’s mid-May, students are graduating and many people are making plans for the summer. In fact … more →
Ben Goldacre and the DREaM project: read all about it in CILIP Update
wrote 2 weeks ago: DREaM keynote speaker Ben Goldacre features on the cover of CILIPUpdate (photograph of Goldacre copy … more →
Data-Driven Skepticism
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Since the beginning of this blog, we’ve been talking about ways to re-use and mash up data tha … more →
Homeopathy as a teaching example
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wrote 3 weeks ago: I talk about homeopathy with my students, as an example of applying their rational thinking skills. … more →
Last chance to nominate for the Practitioner Researcher Excellence Award
wrote 3 weeks ago: Hurry! Nominations close today (Monday 30th April) for the Practitioner Researcher Excellence Award. … more →
Disenchanted.
wrote 4 weeks ago: I don’t understand how the people in the drug companies can stand themselves. Do they not suff … more →
"I Can change your Mind"
wrote 4 weeks ago: Just watched the interesting Australian TV show I Can Change Your Mind About…Climate. The show … more →
Ben Goldacre's work
wrote 1 month ago: Doctor/Journalist Ben Goldacre has done a great job in the UK of promoting rational thinking, throug … more →
The Case Against the Case Against Homeopathy
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wrote 1 month ago: Have you read the previous blog? I hope so, it might give you a better context into which to put . . … more →
The Trouble with Experts
wrote 1 month ago: Here’s a short documentary on appeal to expert authority, produced by the CBC. I found it by … more →
From analogue to digital patients - or how to avoid being trapped in the 'mash-up'
wrote 1 month ago: If I didn’t know from all the media coverage that the digital switchover was taking place in L … more →
La Prairie, Bad Science and Conspicuous Consumption
wrote 1 month ago: Since Ben Goldacre stopped writing his weekly science column for the Guardian, it seems to me that m … more →
META-ANALYSIS: LESS BORING THAN IT SOUNDS? maybe not....
wrote 1 month ago: Recently I was put on to a web site called Chart Porn by someone with genius tastes. As I’ve m … more →
Tuesday Snippet and My Son's Sight
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wrote 1 month ago: Horse Pareidolia (Photo credit: CarbonNYC) I like studying how we learn things. Though often it see … more →
Day 264: LET THEM EAT PLACEBO
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wrote 1 month ago: Having arrived, in the previous post, at the base camp established by the Ancient Greek pre-Socratic … more →
Registrations open for the DREaM conference, July 9th, London
wrote 1 month ago: The British Library piazzaRegistrations are now open for the 2012 DREaM project conference which tak … more →
The clinical and pre-clinical proofs for homeopathy 2012
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wrote 1 month ago: PROOFS FOR HOMEOPATHY I wonder sometimes what would happen, and what the world would be like, if hom … more →
Bad Science...? Just Bad Geology!
wrote 1 month ago: Last night when looking for a new book to read I picked up my copy of Ben Goldacre’s Bad Scien … more →
Dr Ben Goldacre to present Practitioner Researcher Excellence Award at DREaM conference on 9th July 2012
wrote 1 month ago: Award presenter and keynote speaker Dr Ben Goldacre (copyright Rhys Stacker 2009) Who will you nomin … more →
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