I THINK YOULL FIND ITS BIT EB
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I THINK YOULL FIND ITS BIT EB

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I THINK YOULL FIND ITS BIT EB

About this book

The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma.

In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In Bad Pharma, he put the $600 billion global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. Now the pick of the journalism by one of our wittiiest, most indignant and most fearless commentators on the worlds of medicine and science is collected in one volume.

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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...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Intro
  7. How Science Works
  8. Biologising
  9. Statistics
  10. Big Data
  11. Surveys
  12. Epidemiology
  13. Bad Academia
  14. Government Statistics
  15. Evidence-Based Policy
  16. Drugs
  17. Libel
  18. Quacks
  19. Magic Boxes
  20. Aids
  21. Electrosensitivity
  22. Post-Modernism
  23. Irrationality
  24. Bad Journalism
  25. Brainiac
  26. Stuff
  27. Early Snarks
  28. Bookends
  29. Footnotes
  30. Notes
  31. List of Illustrations
  32. Index
  33. Acknowledgements
  34. About the Author
  35. Also by Ben Goldacre
  36. About the Publisher