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Booker in shock admission of less-than-wholly-accurate reporting on climate change...
From Christopher Booker in the Sunday Telegraph: I owe readers a correction of one or two points in my item last week criticising Lord Stern as one of our “scaremongers in chief” over global warming. … more →
Don't Get Fooled Again
Booker in shock admission of less-than-wholly-accurate reporting on climate change...
Richard Wilson wrote 7 months ago: From Christopher Booker in the Sunday Telegraph: I owe readers a correction of one or two points in … more →
Daily Mail gets fooled again by Booker's quack-journalism
Richard Wilson wrote 7 months ago: Another corking piece of journo-quackery from Christopher Booker, this time in the Daily Mail. All t … more →
Skeptics in the Pub - evidence-based-policy-making versus policy-based-evidence-making
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Richard Wilson wrote 7 months ago: Monday’s book talk at Skeptics in the Pub certainly wasn’t my best, though things warmed … more →
More on the "Booker prize for climate change claptrap"
Richard Wilson wrote 9 months ago: From The Guardian: So here it is: your first sight of the Christopher Booker prize 2009. It is named … more →
George Monbiot launches the Booker prize for pseudo-science...
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Richard Wilson wrote 10 months ago: It had to happen sooner or later… From George Monbiot at the Guardian Today I am launching a n … more →
Booker attacks... BBC Newsnight science editor Susan Watts
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Richard Wilson wrote 10 months ago: Having disproved man-made global warming, refuted Darwin’s theory of evolution, and proved tha … more →
Poll: Is it right for the Sunday Telegraph to mislead the public about the health risks of asbestos?
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Richard Wilson wrote 10 months ago: The Sunday Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker has now written at least 41 different articles in … more →
Health experts urge Canadian government to stop funding the Chrysotile Institute
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Richard Wilson wrote 10 months ago: In “Don’t Get Fooled Again”, I highlight Sunday Telegraph columnist Christopher Bo … more →
Is it wrong to highlight the deaths of HIV-positive AIDS denialists who reject medications and urge others to do the same?
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Richard Wilson wrote 10 months ago: In “Don’t Get Fooled Again”, I look at the role played by the media in promoting d … more →
Richard North caught white-washing Booker's Wikipedia entry
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Richard Wilson wrote 10 months ago: Wikipedia’s article on Christopher Booker is currently the top search result when you type typ … more →
Christine Maggiore's last podcast
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Richard Wilson wrote 10 months ago: Yesterday I listened, in growing disbelief, to the last episode of HIV-positive AIDS denialist Chris … more →
Booker's bogus claims about... Speed cameras
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Richard Wilson wrote 10 months ago: From The Guardian In Saturday’s Telegraph, Christopher Booker and Richard North published a lo … more →
Yet more pseudo-science from the Telegraph...
Richard Wilson wrote 10 months ago: The Telegraph’s “war on science” has opened up a new front, prompted, it seems, by … more →
"Children must never play with matches": Ophelia Benson on the folly of amateur medicine
Richard Wilson wrote 10 months ago: From Butterflies and Wheels It’s good to question conventional wisdom, except when it isn … more →
David Gorski on the insidious myth of "balance" in science reporting
Richard Wilson wrote 10 months ago: From Science-based medicine I believe that most reporters in the media do really want to get it righ … more →
Lizzy Siddal reviews Don't Get Fooled Again
Richard Wilson wrote 11 months ago: From Lizzy’s Literary Life We all know that you shouldn’t believe everything that you read in … more →
Quackometer lists Don't Get Fooled Again among the best books of 2008
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Richard Wilson wrote 11 months ago: From Quackometer Whereas Goldacre looked at the dangers of nonsense more from a personal and UK poin … more →
Liberal Conspiracy on Christopher Booker's scientific credentials
Richard Wilson wrote 11 months ago: From Liberal Conspiracy Rejoice, people! Whatever you may’ve read, however many chilling predictions … more →
The parallels between AIDS denial and Holocaust negationism
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Richard Wilson wrote 11 months ago: In “Don’t Get Fooled Again” I look at the twin delusions of AIDS denial and Holoca … more →
