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  As far as I understand thinktanks…. Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday June 7 2008 It is with deep regret that I must alert you to a frightening decline in the quality of maths in reports complaining about the frightening decline in the quality of maths in Britain. “The value of... Posted Jun 07 2008, 01:33 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: amp, guardian, media coverage, maths, decline, saturday june

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  Blogs vs mainstream media Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday May 31 2008 You will remember last week we were talking about the £2,000 Dore “miracle cure” for dyslexia, invented by paint entrepreneur Wynford Dore. It had been pushed unrelentingly in the media, despite... Posted May 30 2008, 06:26 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: amp, guardian, miracle, personal endorsement, itc, ofcom, wynford dore, kenny logan, judgements, entrepreneur, paint, dyslexia

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  In which I attempt to become, like, poetic. Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday May 10 2008 I was hoping this week to attend a protest of patients and scientists in favour of human-animal hybrid embryo cell experiments outside parliament, discussing and explaining the science to MPs, chatting to... Posted May 16 2008, 07:15 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: scientists, science, human animal, embryo, guardian, parliament, protest, favour, cell experiments, motor neurone disease, unease

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  Pools of blood 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... Posted May 09 2008, 05:22 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: guardian, untrue statement, paragraph, standard tools

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  The amazing disappearing reappearing finger 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... Posted May 02 2008, 05:12 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: guardian, bladder on a stick, pratfalls, crowds, may day, buffoonery, bauble, morris dancers, chaos, fool

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  “Manufacturing Doubt”: Sir Cliff Richard weighs in on the Cochrane review. 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... Posted Apr 25 2008, 04:27 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: guardian, meta analysis, nonsense, celebrity community, ongoing project, cochrane collaboration, vitamin pill, profit organisation, pitfalls

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  My unfashionable views on regulating nonsense 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... Posted Apr 18 2008, 05:40 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: guardian, psychic investigators, poltergeist, paranormal phenomena, psychic detective, suzanne hadwin, easington district council

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  How policy works 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... Posted Apr 11 2008, 07:51 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: crimes, guardian, enlightenment, clock, right time, food additives

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  The least surrogate outcome 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... Posted Apr 04 2008, 05:15 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: guardian, statistics, centuries, number crunching, maths, vague idea

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  The trial that never was. 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... Posted Mar 28 2008, 06:16 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: amp, guardian, pills, fish oil, epic saga

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  The Hadacol Boogie - Radio 4 Quack Show Listen Again… 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... Posted Mar 24 2008, 09:26 AM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: guardian, radio 4, gurus, cheques, dudley, diet fads

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  Pep, zing, oomph, ker-ching. 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... Posted Mar 14 2008, 07:05 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: doctors, love, guardian, pills

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  Pep, zing, oomph, ker-ching. CoQ10. 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... Posted Mar 14 2008, 07:05 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: doctors, love, guardian, pills

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  Beau Funnel 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... Posted Mar 07 2008, 07:01 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: guardian, suggestion

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  All bow before the might of the placebo effect, it is the coolest strangest thing in medicine Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 1 2008 It was fun to hear universal jubilation over the new meta-analysis showing once again that some antidepressants aren’t much cop in mild or moderate depression: most of all on the Today programme,... Posted Feb 29 2008, 05:24 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: guardian, antidepressants, cop, march 1, moderate depression, meta analysis, jubilation