I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That (61 page)
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Authors: Ben Goldacre
There’s Something Magical About Watching Patterns Emerge from Data
Care.data Can Save Lives: But Not If We Bungle It
A New and Interesting Form of Wrong
‘Hello Madam, Would You Like Your Children to Be Unemployed?’
When Journalists Do Primary Research
Anecdotes Are Great. If They Really Illustrate the Data
The Strange Case of the Magnetic Wine
What Is Science? First, Magnetise Your Wine …
What If Academics Were as Dumb as Quacks with Statistics?
Brain-Imaging Studies Report More Positive Findings Than Their Numbers Can Support. This Is Fishy
Twelve Monkeys. No … Eight. Wait, Sorry, I Meant Fourteen
Medical Hypotheses Fails the Aids Test
Observations on the Classification of Idiots
If You Want to Be Trusted More: Claim Less
Is This the Worst Government Statistic Ever Created?
More Than Sixty Children Saved from Abuse
I’d Expect This from UKIP, or the Daily Mail . Not from a Government Leaflet
Andrew Lansley and His Imaginary Evidence
Why Is Evidence So Hard for Politicians?
Politicians Can Divine Which Policy Works Best by Using Their Special Magic Politician Beam
Over There! An Eight-Mile-High Distraction Made of Posh Chocolate!
As Far as I Understand Thinktanks …
Meaningful Debates Need Clear Information
Building Evidence into Education
A Rock of Crack as Big as the Ritz
NMT Is Suing Dr Peter Wilmshurst. So How Trustworthy Is This Company? Let’s Look at Its Website …
‘We Are More Possible Than You Can Powerfully Imagine’
Science Is About Embracing Your Knockers
The Noble and Ancient Tradition of Moron-Baiting
After Madeleine, Why Not Bin Laden?
Who’s Holding the Smoking Gun on Bioresonance?
Aids Denialism at the Spectator
Wi-Fi Wants to Kill Your Children … But Alasdair Philips of Powerwatch Sells the Cure!
Why Don’t Journalists Mention the Data?
Yeah, Well, You Can Prove Anything with Science
Evidence-Based Smear Campaigns
All Bow Before the Mighty Power of the Nocebo Effect
So Brilliantly You’ve Presented a Really Transgressive Case Through the Mainstream Media
Health Warning: Exercise Makes You Fat
The Caveat in Paragraph Number 19
Why Don’t Journalists Link to Primary Sources?
A Fishy Friend, and His Friends
MMR: The Scare Stories Are Back
Prevention Is Better than Cure When It Comes to Health Scares
Roger Coghill and the Aids Test
Here’s My … Foreword to the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway Guidebook
Staying Beautiful Is Easy to Do
‘Nanniebots’ to Catch Paedophiles
Be Very Afraid: The Bad Science Manifesto
What Eight Years of Writing the Bad Science Column Has Taught Me