Ben Goldacre

Tamiflu troubles

Schwitzer health news blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

As British physician-writer Ben Goldacre put it: "Tamiflu is pretty marginal as a treatment, and crap as prophylaxis: as we basically already knew."...

Ben Goldacre disses “facilitated communication”

Why Evolution Is True (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009

At the Guardian’s “comment is free” section, Ben Goldacre (author of the great Bad Science blog) shows that this so-called communication lacks all credibility. I’ve watched at least five or six network news shows featuring this unfortunate patient tapping out messages with the help of a friendly guiding hand. Have any of the mainstream media raised [...]

Bad science: Making contact with a helping hand | Ben Goldacre

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009

... Group. I've made a note in my diary for this date next year. Just to check. Medical research Ben Goldacre guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

Atheist's Guide to Christmas North Fife

North Fife (Free subscription) | yesterday

... best Christmas pop hits, and contributors include Richard Dawkins, Charlie Brooker, Derren Brown, Ben Goldacre, Jenny Colgan, David Baddiel, Simon Singh, AC Grayling, Brian Cox and Richard Herring. The full book advance and all royalties will go to the UK HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust. The Atheist's Guide to Christmas North Fife Scotland.

Another Blogroll Update

In the Pipeline (Free subscription) | yesterday

Time for some more useful sites! In the blog category, welcome to Intermolecular , Natural Product Man , Experimental Error . And in the chemistry data section, I've added Synthetic Pages , Not Voodoo , and the Organic Chemistry Portal . And finally, I'd inexplicably left Ben Goldacre's Bad Science off the blogroll, even though I've linked to it several times, so I've fixed that. Enjoy!

Petition for English Libel Law Reform with Dara O’Briain, Robin Ince & More

Memoirs of a Skepchick (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

... initiative so far, like Simon Singh, Richard Wiseman, Dara O’ Briain, Jonathan Ross, Stephen Fry, Ben Goldacre, Marcus Chown, Dave Gorman, Robin Ince, and many others. I was able to chat with Dara, Marcus, and Robin, as well as John Kampfner, the CEO of Index on Censorship. Find the audio on the Skepchick iTunes feed , via the RSS , or listen through your browser: Dara O’Briain, Robin Ince,...

I’m Giving Away 10 Copies Of ‘Bad Science’

Adamus.nl (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

... clearly, and with an awareness of their own biases and limitations. The book Bad Science by Ben Goldacre is a goldmine for sceptics. It effectively demolishes homeopathy, deconstructs nutritionists, and delivers staggering blows to the media’s horrendously flawed reporting of science news. But it does all this almost carelessly, as an added benefit, in the course of its real goal: educating...

Medical Journals: British Medical Journal: Is the Conflict of Interest Unacceptable When Pharmaceutical Companies Conduct Their Own Trials?

Policy and Medicine (Free subscription) | yesterday

... of Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, London, argues that there is no conflict. Ben Goldacre, a doctor and writer from Nuffield College, Oxford, argues that there is a conflict. According to his website Bad Science, Dr. Goldacre is a award-winning writer, broadcaster, and medical doctor who specializes in unpicking dodgy scientific claims made by scaremongering journalist,...

Still Booking: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People

Londonist (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

... course, but the more loveable talents of Dara O'Briain, Al Murray, Barry Cryer, Richard Herring, Ben Goldacre, Chris Addison, Mark Steele...and, well, just about everyone else you've ever heard of with a rationalist bent (Spinoza and Descartes send their apologies). Surely the best line-up since the queue to board Noah's Ark? The show's on at the HMV Apollo in Hammersmith on 20 December....

So brillliantly you’ve presented a really transgressive case through the mainstream media

Bad Science (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009

Ben Goldacre, Saturday 5 December 2009, The Guardian Here is a mystery. Rom Houben, a Belgian man, was diagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years, and he has now made a partial recovery. This has been demonstrated with a series of recently developed brain scanning techniques (whose predictive value is not entirely known, but [...]

• Bad science: Making contact with a helping hand | Ben Goldacre - The Guardian

Merseyside Skeptics Society Stick the Boots in.

Thinking is Dangerous (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

... weaselling and squirming at your convenience. Lots of good blogs have been covering this such as Ben Goldacre's Bad Science , Lay Science and The Quackometer . All this, and I missed it..... The upshot of the session was a glut of anti-homeopathy pieces in the press, such as The Sun's Homeopathy is a Resources Drain . (Sadly, there are still plenty of people who think sugar pills may cure...

Let's have a heated debate?

PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009

Is the conflict of interest unacceptable when drug companies conduct trials on their own drugs? Yes says Ben Goldacre No says Vince Lawton

Let's have a heated debate?

PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009

Is the conflict of interest unacceptable when drug companies conduct trials on their own drugs? Yes says Ben Goldacre No says Vince Lawton

Girls prefer pink - biologically - really'??

Towards International Women's Day 2011 (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009

While ferreting around on the pinkstinks website and zapping off my own version of the email to the head office, I discovered this article by Ben Goldacre debunking the idea that colour preference is genetically determined by males' and females' biological make-up. Another way of putting us all into little boxes.

Nine Lessons: Do You Have Your Tickets Yet?

Memoirs of a Skepchick (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009

... KinderEgg, but instead of delicious chocolate you get Josie Long, Dara O’Briain, Richard Dawkins, Ben Goldacre, Simon Singh, and more and instead of a cheesy plastic toy you get ME! ME! No assembly required. Anyway the point is you should totally be there. Speaking of Christmas and heathens and such, here’s a fun song for you: Andy Prieboy’s The Fate Awaiting Thee .