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Notes
HOW SCIENCE WORKS
Why Won’t Professor Susan Greenfield Publish This Theory in a Scientific Journal?
Why Won’t Professor: http://www.badscience.net/2011/11/why-wont-professor-greenfield-publish-this-theory-in-a-scientific-journal/
announced that computer games: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/health/3871474/Computer-games-are-giving-kids-dementia.html
dementia in children: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2049040/Computer-games-leave-children-dementia-warns-neurologist.html
not really what she meant: http://beefjack.com/news/the-sun-misrepresented-scientist-in-games-dementia-article/
rise in autism diagnoses: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128236.400-susan-greenfield-living-online-is-changing-our-brains.html
then pulled back: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2023535/Battle-dons-internet-link-autism-scientists-claim-PCs-shorten-attention-span.html
autism charities: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/aug/06/research-autism-internet-susan-greenfield?CMP=twt_fd
Oxford professor of psychology: http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-baroness-susan.html
They seem changeable: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2011/aug/08/1
derided in the media as sexist: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23793960-the-male-rage-that-is-a-bad-rap-for-science.do
Professor Greenfield responded: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/aug/06/research-autism-internet-susan-greenfield?CMP=twt_fd
Cherry-Picking Is Bad. At Least Warn Us When You Do It
Cherry-Picking: http://www.badscience.net/2011/09/cherry-picking-is-bad-at-least-warn-us-when-you-do-it/
Aric Sigman: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/14/daycare-cortisol-levels-children?INTCMP=SRCH
Professor Dorothy Bishop: http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-become-celebrity-scientific.html
Sigman himself admits it: http://www.badscience.net/2011/09/2009/02/the-evidence-aric-sigman-ignored/
pdf on his website: http://www.aricsigman.com/IMAGES/Statement.pdf
Celia Mulrow: http://www.bmj.com/content/309/6954/597.full
‘systematic reviews’: http://www.bmj.com/content/315/7109/672.full
the last time: http://www.badscience.net/2011/09/2009/02/the-evidence-aric-sigman-ignored/
deliberately incomplete article: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg8LlUME-IM&feature=player_embedded
Being Wrong
Being Wrong: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian
research about research: http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/archinternmed.2011.295
John Ioannidis: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=16014596
Kids Who Spot Bullshit, and the Adults Who Get Upset About It
Kids Who Spot: http://www.badscience.net/2011/06/kids-who-spot-bullshit-and-the-adults-who-get-upset-about-it/
Ryan Giggs’s penis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Giggs
Brain Gym: http://www.badscience.net/2011/06/category/brain-gym/
writing about since 2003: http://www.badscience.net/2011/06/2003/06/work-out-your-mind/
pay hundreds of thousands: http://www.davidcolarusso.com/blog/?p=48
hundreds of state schools: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22brain+gym%22+inurl%3Asch.uk
Emily Rosa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Rosa
published a scientific paper: http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/279/13/1005.full
Journal of the American Medical Association: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_the_American_Medical_Association
practitioners were deeply unhappy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Rosa
Rhys Morgan: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/15/miracle-mineral-solutions-mms-b...
