Article by Harriet Hall on the failed experiment in bringing real science and critical thinking to “O, The Oprah Magazine”: Write for Oprah? Wrong for Me http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=6721 Ben Goldacre’s book “Bad Science” and website www.badscience.net details the misuse and abuse of science by the media; Harriet Hall’s experience would seem to validate a lot of [...]
Now that Matthias Rath has pulled out of his libel case against Ben Goldacre and The Guardian, further background information on the death and misery wrought on South Africa has now been made available by Ben Goldacre at the following links: http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/matthias-rath-pulls-out-forced-to-pay-the-guardians-costs-i-think-this-means-i-win/ http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/ What is well known, and needs repeating, is that former President Thabo [...]
Stumbled across this interview with Ben Goldacre in his badscience blog article. Ben provides a way of cutting swathes of nonsense one increasingly hears in the media these days. Of particular note, his quote at about 5 minutes 50 seconds regarding the BBC’s once respected “Horizon” science programmes as “Horizon going to nonsense” resonated with my [...]
