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STATISTICS – BAD SCIENCE The first is simple: you can conflate two different things into one number, either to inflate a problem, or confuse it. Last weekend, a few hundred thousand people marched in London against the cuts. On the same day, there was some violent disturbance, windows smashed, policemen injured, and drunkeness. EQUAZEN – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 29 2008. And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale – don’t switch off now, the punchline’s funny. The county council said it was doing a “trial” of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed so that it couldn’t possibly give useful information – not least because it had no placebo groupROGER COGHILL
Ben Goldacre. The Guardian, Saturday July 12, 2008. You will remember, two weeks ago now, we saw the Sunday Express claiming on its front page that an impressive government adviser called Dr Roger Coghill had performed a research study demonstrating that the Bridgend suicide cases all lived closer to a mobile phone mast than average. PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCE August 25th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, onanism, placebo, podcast | 31 Comments ». So tonight at 9pm on BBC Radio 4 (Monday) you can hear the second episode of my two-part miniseries on the placebo effect, one of the most effective and neglected evidence based treatments known to man. In this show we look at the ethical and FEBRUARY – 2003 – BAD SCIENCE When hospital is a prison. The government wants to change the Mental Health Act so that some persistent offenders can be locked awaywithout charge.
NATIONAL HEALTHCARE: A BREEDING GROUND FOR joanna said, September 18, 2009 at 5:51 pm. The claim that having a national health care system is a breeding ground for terrorism is an attempt to use scare tactics towards the general US public to persuade them to fear implementing a national health care system. The claim is only based on a number of 8 imported Muslim doctors in the UK, which VOICES OF THE ANCIENTS Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 16 January 2010. Every now and then you have to salute a genius. Both the Daily Mail and the Metro report new research analysing the positions of Britain’s ancient sites, and the results are startling: primitive man had his own form of “sat nav”. Researcher Tom Brooks analysed 1,500 prehistoric monuments, and found them all to be on a grid of HOW MANY EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A I wrote this for him. How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb? We’ve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of them turn this lightbulb on, some of them don’t; some of them only work sometimes; and some of them work sometimes, but twenty years after you flick them. Some of the switches only work WHO’S HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN ON BIORESONANCE? This is a story, in all the authoritative regalia of television news, about the excellently bonkers “bioresonance” treatment to help smokers kick the habit. “The bioresonance treatment is analysing the energy wave patterns in Jean’s body,” they begin. “It finds the frequency pattern of the nicotine and reverses it. BAD SCIENCEABPIACADEMIC PRACADEMIC PUBLISHINGADVERTSAFRICAAIDS The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivorytower.
STATISTICS – BAD SCIENCE The first is simple: you can conflate two different things into one number, either to inflate a problem, or confuse it. Last weekend, a few hundred thousand people marched in London against the cuts. On the same day, there was some violent disturbance, windows smashed, policemen injured, and drunkeness. EQUAZEN – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 29 2008. And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale – don’t switch off now, the punchline’s funny. The county council said it was doing a “trial” of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed so that it couldn’t possibly give useful information – not least because it had no placebo groupROGER COGHILL
Ben Goldacre. The Guardian, Saturday July 12, 2008. You will remember, two weeks ago now, we saw the Sunday Express claiming on its front page that an impressive government adviser called Dr Roger Coghill had performed a research study demonstrating that the Bridgend suicide cases all lived closer to a mobile phone mast than average. PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCE August 25th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, onanism, placebo, podcast | 31 Comments ». So tonight at 9pm on BBC Radio 4 (Monday) you can hear the second episode of my two-part miniseries on the placebo effect, one of the most effective and neglected evidence based treatments known to man. In this show we look at the ethical and FEBRUARY – 2003 – BAD SCIENCE When hospital is a prison. The government wants to change the Mental Health Act so that some persistent offenders can be locked awaywithout charge.
NATIONAL HEALTHCARE: A BREEDING GROUND FOR joanna said, September 18, 2009 at 5:51 pm. The claim that having a national health care system is a breeding ground for terrorism is an attempt to use scare tactics towards the general US public to persuade them to fear implementing a national health care system. The claim is only based on a number of 8 imported Muslim doctors in the UK, which VOICES OF THE ANCIENTS Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 16 January 2010. Every now and then you have to salute a genius. Both the Daily Mail and the Metro report new research analysing the positions of Britain’s ancient sites, and the results are startling: primitive man had his own form of “sat nav”. Researcher Tom Brooks analysed 1,500 prehistoric monuments, and found them all to be on a grid of HOW MANY EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A I wrote this for him. How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb? We’ve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of them turn this lightbulb on, some of them don’t; some of them only work sometimes; and some of them work sometimes, but twenty years after you flick them. Some of the switches only work WHO’S HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN ON BIORESONANCE? This is a story, in all the authoritative regalia of television news, about the excellently bonkers “bioresonance” treatment to help smokers kick the habit. “The bioresonance treatment is analysing the energy wave patterns in Jean’s body,” they begin. “It finds the frequency pattern of the nicotine and reverses it. SCREENING – BAD SCIENCE The Sun has been running a campaign to lower the screening age, on the back of Jade Goody’s death at 28 from cervical cancer, and gathered 108,000 signatures on a petition. The Metro newspaper have commissioned a poll showing that 82% of 16 to 24-year olds in England agree with lowering the screening age. Read the rest of this entry ». BRAIN GYM – BAD SCIENCE They tell you to rub either side of your breast bone, in a special Brain Gym way called Brain Buttons: “This exercise stimulates the flow of oxygen-carrying blood through the carotid arteries to the brain to awaken it and increase concentration and relaxation. Brain buttons lie directly over and stimulate the carotid arteries.”. MRSA – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre Saturday November 19, 2005 The Guardian. I realise this is starting to look like some kind of dirty protest, but here is a window on to how the media sees itself in relation to scientific expertise, and how it copes with criticism, which just happens – entirely by coincidence – to involve the MRSA scandal. HERE’S OUR CABINET OFFICE PAPER ON RANDOMISED TRIALS OF So, with my grown up hat on, here’s a Cabinet Office paper I co-wrote with some government people on exactly this topic. We explain why randomised trials of policy are so powerful; we explain exactly how to do them; and we explain how to identify a meaningful policy question that can be explored cheaply in a good qualitytrial.Â.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE PLACEBO EFFECT? If you like what I do, and you want me to do more, you can: buy my books Bad Science and Bad Pharma, give them to your friends, put them on your reading list, employ me to do a talk, or tweet this article to your friends.Thanks! +++++ 5 Responses. The Powerful Placebo « Stuff And Nonsense said,. November 13, 2009 at 10:34 pm HOW MANY EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A I wrote this for him. How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb? We’ve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of them turn this lightbulb on, some of them don’t; some of them only work sometimes; and some of them work sometimes, but twenty years after you flick them. Some of the switches only work THE TRUTH ABOUT NUTRITIONISTS The media are now wading into the confusion with programmes such as The Truth About Food, but their efforts are misplaced: it’s the truth about nutritionists that needs to be told. Ben Goldacre, doctor and writer, London. ben@badscience.net. WHO’S HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN ON BIORESONANCE? Ben Goldacre Saturday November 12, 2005 The Guardian. I know you’re all looking forward to my fifth consecutive week writing about the tabloid’s favourite MRSA “laboratory”, but my Deep Throat keeps teasing me, so the latest explosion will have to wait. Now. It is a well-recognised phenomenon that swearing is only really funny when very old or very posh people do it: and likewise, bad THE RETURN OF MRSA EXPERT DR MALYSZEWICZ The Return Of MRSA Expert Dr Malyszewicz. Dr Chris Malyszewicz PhD, disgraced MRSA “expert” who got false positive results from his garden shed laboratory with his non-accredited correspondence course PhD from America and his lack of microbiology training, and demonstrable (and demonstrated, and admitted) lack of microbiologyknowledge
ROGER COGHILL AND THE AIDS TEST Roger Coghill and the Aids test. It’s the big stories I enjoy the most. “ Suicides linked to phone masts ” roared the Sunday Express front-page headline this week. “The spate of deaths among young people in Britain’s suicide capital could be linked to radio waves from dozens of mobile phone transmitter masts near the victims’homes.”.
BAD SCIENCEABPIACADEMIC PRACADEMIC PUBLISHINGADVERTSAFRICAAIDS The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivorytower.
STATISTICS – BAD SCIENCE The first is simple: you can conflate two different things into one number, either to inflate a problem, or confuse it. Last weekend, a few hundred thousand people marched in London against the cuts. On the same day, there was some violent disturbance, windows smashed, policemen injured, and drunkeness. EQUAZEN – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 29 2008. And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale – don’t switch off now, the punchline’s funny. The county council said it was doing a “trial” of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed so that it couldn’t possibly give useful information – not least because it had no placebo groupROGER COGHILL
Ben Goldacre. The Guardian, Saturday July 12, 2008. You will remember, two weeks ago now, we saw the Sunday Express claiming on its front page that an impressive government adviser called Dr Roger Coghill had performed a research study demonstrating that the Bridgend suicide cases all lived closer to a mobile phone mast than average. PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCE August 25th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, onanism, placebo, podcast | 31 Comments ». So tonight at 9pm on BBC Radio 4 (Monday) you can hear the second episode of my two-part miniseries on the placebo effect, one of the most effective and neglected evidence based treatments known to man. In this show we look at the ethical and FEBRUARY – 2003 – BAD SCIENCE When hospital is a prison. The government wants to change the Mental Health Act so that some persistent offenders can be locked awaywithout charge.
NATIONAL HEALTHCARE: A BREEDING GROUND FOR joanna said, September 18, 2009 at 5:51 pm. The claim that having a national health care system is a breeding ground for terrorism is an attempt to use scare tactics towards the general US public to persuade them to fear implementing a national health care system. The claim is only based on a number of 8 imported Muslim doctors in the UK, which VOICES OF THE ANCIENTS Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 16 January 2010. Every now and then you have to salute a genius. Both the Daily Mail and the Metro report new research analysing the positions of Britain’s ancient sites, and the results are startling: primitive man had his own form of “sat nav”. Researcher Tom Brooks analysed 1,500 prehistoric monuments, and found them all to be on a grid of HOW MANY EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A I wrote this for him. How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb? We’ve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of them turn this lightbulb on, some of them don’t; some of them only work sometimes; and some of them work sometimes, but twenty years after you flick them. Some of the switches only work WHO’S HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN ON BIORESONANCE? This is a story, in all the authoritative regalia of television news, about the excellently bonkers “bioresonance” treatment to help smokers kick the habit. “The bioresonance treatment is analysing the energy wave patterns in Jean’s body,” they begin. “It finds the frequency pattern of the nicotine and reverses it. BAD SCIENCEABPIACADEMIC PRACADEMIC PUBLISHINGADVERTSAFRICAAIDS The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivorytower.
STATISTICS – BAD SCIENCE The first is simple: you can conflate two different things into one number, either to inflate a problem, or confuse it. Last weekend, a few hundred thousand people marched in London against the cuts. On the same day, there was some violent disturbance, windows smashed, policemen injured, and drunkeness. EQUAZEN – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 29 2008. And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale – don’t switch off now, the punchline’s funny. The county council said it was doing a “trial” of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed so that it couldn’t possibly give useful information – not least because it had no placebo groupROGER COGHILL
Ben Goldacre. The Guardian, Saturday July 12, 2008. You will remember, two weeks ago now, we saw the Sunday Express claiming on its front page that an impressive government adviser called Dr Roger Coghill had performed a research study demonstrating that the Bridgend suicide cases all lived closer to a mobile phone mast than average. PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCE August 25th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, onanism, placebo, podcast | 31 Comments ». So tonight at 9pm on BBC Radio 4 (Monday) you can hear the second episode of my two-part miniseries on the placebo effect, one of the most effective and neglected evidence based treatments known to man. In this show we look at the ethical and FEBRUARY – 2003 – BAD SCIENCE When hospital is a prison. The government wants to change the Mental Health Act so that some persistent offenders can be locked awaywithout charge.
NATIONAL HEALTHCARE: A BREEDING GROUND FOR joanna said, September 18, 2009 at 5:51 pm. The claim that having a national health care system is a breeding ground for terrorism is an attempt to use scare tactics towards the general US public to persuade them to fear implementing a national health care system. The claim is only based on a number of 8 imported Muslim doctors in the UK, which VOICES OF THE ANCIENTS Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 16 January 2010. Every now and then you have to salute a genius. Both the Daily Mail and the Metro report new research analysing the positions of Britain’s ancient sites, and the results are startling: primitive man had his own form of “sat nav”. Researcher Tom Brooks analysed 1,500 prehistoric monuments, and found them all to be on a grid of HOW MANY EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A I wrote this for him. How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb? We’ve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of them turn this lightbulb on, some of them don’t; some of them only work sometimes; and some of them work sometimes, but twenty years after you flick them. Some of the switches only work WHO’S HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN ON BIORESONANCE? This is a story, in all the authoritative regalia of television news, about the excellently bonkers “bioresonance” treatment to help smokers kick the habit. “The bioresonance treatment is analysing the energy wave patterns in Jean’s body,” they begin. “It finds the frequency pattern of the nicotine and reverses it. SCREENING – BAD SCIENCE The Sun has been running a campaign to lower the screening age, on the back of Jade Goody’s death at 28 from cervical cancer, and gathered 108,000 signatures on a petition. The Metro newspaper have commissioned a poll showing that 82% of 16 to 24-year olds in England agree with lowering the screening age. Read the rest of this entry ». BRAIN GYM – BAD SCIENCE They tell you to rub either side of your breast bone, in a special Brain Gym way called Brain Buttons: “This exercise stimulates the flow of oxygen-carrying blood through the carotid arteries to the brain to awaken it and increase concentration and relaxation. Brain buttons lie directly over and stimulate the carotid arteries.”. MRSA – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre Saturday November 19, 2005 The Guardian. I realise this is starting to look like some kind of dirty protest, but here is a window on to how the media sees itself in relation to scientific expertise, and how it copes with criticism, which just happens – entirely by coincidence – to involve the MRSA scandal. HERE’S OUR CABINET OFFICE PAPER ON RANDOMISED TRIALS OF So, with my grown up hat on, here’s a Cabinet Office paper I co-wrote with some government people on exactly this topic. We explain why randomised trials of policy are so powerful; we explain exactly how to do them; and we explain how to identify a meaningful policy question that can be explored cheaply in a good qualitytrial.Â.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE PLACEBO EFFECT? If you like what I do, and you want me to do more, you can: buy my books Bad Science and Bad Pharma, give them to your friends, put them on your reading list, employ me to do a talk, or tweet this article to your friends.Thanks! +++++ 5 Responses. The Powerful Placebo « Stuff And Nonsense said,. November 13, 2009 at 10:34 pm HOW MANY EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A I wrote this for him. How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb? We’ve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of them turn this lightbulb on, some of them don’t; some of them only work sometimes; and some of them work sometimes, but twenty years after you flick them. Some of the switches only work THE TRUTH ABOUT NUTRITIONISTS The media are now wading into the confusion with programmes such as The Truth About Food, but their efforts are misplaced: it’s the truth about nutritionists that needs to be told. Ben Goldacre, doctor and writer, London. ben@badscience.net. WHO’S HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN ON BIORESONANCE? Ben Goldacre Saturday November 12, 2005 The Guardian. I know you’re all looking forward to my fifth consecutive week writing about the tabloid’s favourite MRSA “laboratory”, but my Deep Throat keeps teasing me, so the latest explosion will have to wait. Now. It is a well-recognised phenomenon that swearing is only really funny when very old or very posh people do it: and likewise, bad THE RETURN OF MRSA EXPERT DR MALYSZEWICZ Dr Chris Malyszewicz PhD, disgraced MRSA “expert” who got false positive results from his garden shed laboratory with his non-accredited correspondence course PhD from America and his lack of microbiology training, and demonstrable (and demonstrated, and admitted) lack of microbiology knowledge, fountain of every single MRSA “undercover swab” scare in every single tabloid, who had ROGER COGHILL AND THE AIDS TEST Roger Coghill and the Aids test. It’s the big stories I enjoy the most. “ Suicides linked to phone masts ” roared the Sunday Express front-page headline this week. “The spate of deaths among young people in Britain’s suicide capital could be linked to radio waves from dozens of mobile phone transmitter masts near the victims’homes.”.
BAD SCIENCEABPIACADEMIC PRACADEMIC PUBLISHINGADVERTSAFRICAAIDS The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivorytower.
EQUAZEN – BAD SCIENCEWATERVIDEO Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 29 2008. And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale – don’t switch off now, the punchline’s funny. The county council said it was doing a “trial” of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed so that it couldn’t possibly give useful information – not least because it had no placebo group STATISTICS – BAD SCIENCE Hi all, I haven’t posted much on badscience.net due to exciting home events, fun dayjob activity, a ton of behind-the-scenes work on trials transparency with alltrials.net, activity on policy RCTs, exciting websites, and a zillion talks. Â I’m going to post this year’s backlog over the next week or two (and maybe rejig the site if I get achance).
ROGER COGHILL
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday July 12, 2008. You will remember, two weeks ago now, we saw the Sunday Express claiming on its front page that an impressive government adviser called Dr Roger Coghill had performed a research study demonstrating that the Bridgend suicide cases all lived closer to a mobile phone mast than average. When I contacted Coghill it turned out he wasn’t really a PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday August 23 2008. What I particularly enjoy is the spectacle of fat people – ideally drinking beer – watching television, while somewhere on the other side of the world citizens of all nations are getting some nice exercise in the Olympics (throwing javelins, jumping over metal bars, climbing lamp posts with banners, and running away from the MRSA – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre Saturday November 19, 2005 The Guardian. I realise this is starting to look like some kind of dirty protest, but here is a window on to how the media sees itself in relation to scientific expertise, and how it copes with criticism, which just happens – entirely by coincidence – to involve the MRSA scandal. FEBRUARY – 2003 – BAD SCIENCE When hospital is a prison. The government wants to change the Mental Health Act so that some persistent offenders can be locked awaywithout charge.
VOICES OF THE ANCIENTS Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 16 January 2010. Every now and then you have to salute a genius. Both the Daily Mail and the Metro report new research analysing the positions of Britain’s ancient sites, and the results are startling: primitive man had his own form of “sat nav”. Researcher Tom Brooks analysed 1,500 prehistoric monuments, and found them all to be on a grid of NATIONAL HEALTHCARE: A BREEDING GROUND FOR If you like what I do, and you want me to do more, you can: buy my books Bad Science and Bad Pharma, give them to your friends, put them on your reading list, employ me to do a talk, or tweet this article to your friends.Thanks! +++++ 77 Responses. tyeefellows said, WHO’S HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN ON BIORESONANCE? Ben Goldacre Saturday November 12, 2005 The Guardian. I know you’re all looking forward to my fifth consecutive week writing about the tabloid’s favourite MRSA “laboratory”, but my Deep Throat keeps teasing me, so the latest explosion will have to wait. Now. It is a well-recognised phenomenon that swearing is only really funny when very old or very posh people do it: and likewise, bad BAD SCIENCEABPIACADEMIC PRACADEMIC PUBLISHINGADVERTSAFRICAAIDS The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivorytower.
EQUAZEN – BAD SCIENCEWATERVIDEO Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 29 2008. And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale – don’t switch off now, the punchline’s funny. The county council said it was doing a “trial” of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed so that it couldn’t possibly give useful information – not least because it had no placebo group STATISTICS – BAD SCIENCE Hi all, I haven’t posted much on badscience.net due to exciting home events, fun dayjob activity, a ton of behind-the-scenes work on trials transparency with alltrials.net, activity on policy RCTs, exciting websites, and a zillion talks. Â I’m going to post this year’s backlog over the next week or two (and maybe rejig the site if I get achance).
ROGER COGHILL
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday July 12, 2008. You will remember, two weeks ago now, we saw the Sunday Express claiming on its front page that an impressive government adviser called Dr Roger Coghill had performed a research study demonstrating that the Bridgend suicide cases all lived closer to a mobile phone mast than average. When I contacted Coghill it turned out he wasn’t really a PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday August 23 2008. What I particularly enjoy is the spectacle of fat people – ideally drinking beer – watching television, while somewhere on the other side of the world citizens of all nations are getting some nice exercise in the Olympics (throwing javelins, jumping over metal bars, climbing lamp posts with banners, and running away from the MRSA – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre Saturday November 19, 2005 The Guardian. I realise this is starting to look like some kind of dirty protest, but here is a window on to how the media sees itself in relation to scientific expertise, and how it copes with criticism, which just happens – entirely by coincidence – to involve the MRSA scandal. FEBRUARY – 2003 – BAD SCIENCE When hospital is a prison. The government wants to change the Mental Health Act so that some persistent offenders can be locked awaywithout charge.
VOICES OF THE ANCIENTS Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 16 January 2010. Every now and then you have to salute a genius. Both the Daily Mail and the Metro report new research analysing the positions of Britain’s ancient sites, and the results are startling: primitive man had his own form of “sat nav”. Researcher Tom Brooks analysed 1,500 prehistoric monuments, and found them all to be on a grid of NATIONAL HEALTHCARE: A BREEDING GROUND FOR If you like what I do, and you want me to do more, you can: buy my books Bad Science and Bad Pharma, give them to your friends, put them on your reading list, employ me to do a talk, or tweet this article to your friends.Thanks! +++++ 77 Responses. tyeefellows said, WHO’S HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN ON BIORESONANCE? Ben Goldacre Saturday November 12, 2005 The Guardian. I know you’re all looking forward to my fifth consecutive week writing about the tabloid’s favourite MRSA “laboratory”, but my Deep Throat keeps teasing me, so the latest explosion will have to wait. Now. It is a well-recognised phenomenon that swearing is only really funny when very old or very posh people do it: and likewise, bad VACCINES – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre, Saturday 10 October 2009, The Guardian Last month I had a debate at the Royal Institution with Lord Drayson, the Science Minister, in which he argued that I was too harsh on British science coverage, which is the best in the world. During this event our chairman (bizarrely and excellently Simon Mayo) pulled out a health front page from the Express, and asked what we thought SCREENING – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 21 March 2009. Science is not difficult to explain. Today we will see how British journalists go out of their way to cherry pick which evidence they cover, and then explain the risks and benefits in what has been shown to be the single most unhelpful way possible. MRSA – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre Saturday November 19, 2005 The Guardian. I realise this is starting to look like some kind of dirty protest, but here is a window on to how the media sees itself in relation to scientific expertise, and how it copes with criticism, which just happens – entirely by coincidence – to involve the MRSA scandal. BRAIN GYM – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre Saturday March 18, 2006 The Guardian. While all the proper grown up public intellectuals like Rod Liddle were getting a bee in their bonnet about Creationism being taught in a handful of British schools, I’ve accidentally stumbled upon a vast empire of pseudoscience being peddled in hundreds of everyday state schools up and down the country. THE MEDICALISATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE If you like what I do, and you want me to do more, you can: buy my books Bad Science and Bad Pharma, give them to your friends, put them on your reading list, employ me to do a talk, or tweet this article to your friends.Thanks! +++++ 45 Responses. macker said, WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE PLACEBO EFFECT? What’s wrong with the placebo effect? Talk about bad science here. Ben Goldacre Thursday April 15, 2004 The Guardian. · For some strange reason I’ve never understood, pseudoscientists tend to get huffy when you suggest that their cash cow only works through the placebo effect; perhaps they were so distracted by their sea of flawed research into alternative therapies that they WHO’S HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN ON BIORESONANCE? Ben Goldacre Saturday November 12, 2005 The Guardian. I know you’re all looking forward to my fifth consecutive week writing about the tabloid’s favourite MRSA “laboratory”, but my Deep Throat keeps teasing me, so the latest explosion will have to wait. Now. It is a well-recognised phenomenon that swearing is only really funny when very old or very posh people do it: and likewise, bad THE RETURN OF MRSA EXPERT DR MALYSZEWICZ Dr Chris Malyszewicz PhD, disgraced MRSA “expert” who got false positive results from his garden shed laboratory with his non-accredited correspondence course PhD from America and his lack of microbiology training, and demonstrable (and demonstrated, and admitted) lack of microbiology knowledge, fountain of every single MRSA “undercover swab” scare in every single tabloid, who had HOW MANY EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A Robin Ince just asked if I know any epidemiologist lightbulb jokes. I wrote this for him. How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb? We’ve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. HIGH-DILUTION EXPERIMENTS A DELUSION NATURE VOL. 334 28 JULY 1988 NEWS AND VIEWS 287 "High-dilution" experiments a delusion The now celebrated report by Dr J. Benveniste and colleagues elsewhere is found, by a visiting Nature BAD SCIENCEABPIACADEMIC PRACADEMIC PUBLISHINGADVERTSAFRICAAIDS The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivorytower.
STATISTICS – BAD SCIENCE The first is simple: you can conflate two different things into one number, either to inflate a problem, or confuse it. Last weekend, a few hundred thousand people marched in London against the cuts. On the same day, there was some violent disturbance, windows smashed, policemen injured, and drunkeness. EQUAZEN – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 29 2008. And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale – don’t switch off now, the punchline’s funny. The county council said it was doing a “trial” of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed so that it couldn’t possibly give useful information – not least because it had no placebo groupROGER COGHILL
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday July 12, 2008. You will remember, two weeks ago now, we saw the Sunday Express claiming on its front page that an impressive government adviser called Dr Roger Coghill had performed a research study demonstrating that the Bridgend suicide cases all lived closer to a mobile phone mast than average. When I contacted Coghill it turned out he wasn’t really a PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCE August 25th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, onanism, placebo, podcast | 31 Comments ». So tonight at 9pm on BBC Radio 4 (Monday) you can hear the second episode of my two-part miniseries on the placebo effect, one of the most effective and neglected evidence based treatments known to man. In this show we look at the ethical and MRSA – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre Saturday November 19, 2005 The Guardian. I realise this is starting to look like some kind of dirty protest, but here is a window on to how the media sees itself in relation to scientific expertise, and how it copes with criticism, which just happens – entirely by coincidence – to involve the MRSA scandal. THE MEDICALISATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE September 1, 2008 at 1:06 pm. “The reigning myth of today is that the evils of society can all be understood as evils of impersonality, alienation, and coldness. The sum of these is an ideology of intimacy that transmutates political categories into psychological categories. NATIONAL HEALTHCARE: A BREEDING GROUND FOR joanna said, September 18, 2009 at 5:51 pm. The claim that having a national health care system is a breeding ground for terrorism is an attempt to use scare tactics towards the general US public to persuade them to fear implementing a national health care system. The claim is only based on a number of 8 imported Muslim doctors in the UK, which FEBRUARY – 2003 – BAD SCIENCE When hospital is a prison. The government wants to change the Mental Health Act so that some persistent offenders can be locked awaywithout charge.
HOW MANY EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A I wrote this for him. How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb? We’ve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of them turn this lightbulb on, some of them don’t; some of them only work sometimes; and some of them work sometimes, but twenty years after you flick them. Some of the switches only work BAD SCIENCEABPIACADEMIC PRACADEMIC PUBLISHINGADVERTSAFRICAAIDS The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivorytower.
STATISTICS – BAD SCIENCE The first is simple: you can conflate two different things into one number, either to inflate a problem, or confuse it. Last weekend, a few hundred thousand people marched in London against the cuts. On the same day, there was some violent disturbance, windows smashed, policemen injured, and drunkeness. EQUAZEN – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 29 2008. And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale – don’t switch off now, the punchline’s funny. The county council said it was doing a “trial” of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed so that it couldn’t possibly give useful information – not least because it had no placebo groupROGER COGHILL
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday July 12, 2008. You will remember, two weeks ago now, we saw the Sunday Express claiming on its front page that an impressive government adviser called Dr Roger Coghill had performed a research study demonstrating that the Bridgend suicide cases all lived closer to a mobile phone mast than average. When I contacted Coghill it turned out he wasn’t really a PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCE August 25th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, onanism, placebo, podcast | 31 Comments ». So tonight at 9pm on BBC Radio 4 (Monday) you can hear the second episode of my two-part miniseries on the placebo effect, one of the most effective and neglected evidence based treatments known to man. In this show we look at the ethical and MRSA – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre Saturday November 19, 2005 The Guardian. I realise this is starting to look like some kind of dirty protest, but here is a window on to how the media sees itself in relation to scientific expertise, and how it copes with criticism, which just happens – entirely by coincidence – to involve the MRSA scandal. THE MEDICALISATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE September 1, 2008 at 1:06 pm. “The reigning myth of today is that the evils of society can all be understood as evils of impersonality, alienation, and coldness. The sum of these is an ideology of intimacy that transmutates political categories into psychological categories. NATIONAL HEALTHCARE: A BREEDING GROUND FOR joanna said, September 18, 2009 at 5:51 pm. The claim that having a national health care system is a breeding ground for terrorism is an attempt to use scare tactics towards the general US public to persuade them to fear implementing a national health care system. The claim is only based on a number of 8 imported Muslim doctors in the UK, which FEBRUARY – 2003 – BAD SCIENCE When hospital is a prison. The government wants to change the Mental Health Act so that some persistent offenders can be locked awaywithout charge.
HOW MANY EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A I wrote this for him. How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb? We’ve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of them turn this lightbulb on, some of them don’t; some of them only work sometimes; and some of them work sometimes, but twenty years after you flick them. Some of the switches only workBAD SCIENCE
The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivorytower.
VACCINES – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre, Saturday 10 October 2009, The Guardian Last month I had a debate at the Royal Institution with Lord Drayson, the Science Minister, in which he argued that I was too harsh on British science coverage, which is the best in the world. During this event our chairman (bizarrely and excellently Simon Mayo) pulled out a health front page from the Express, and asked what we thought BRAIN GYM – BAD SCIENCE They tell you to rub either side of your breast bone, in a special Brain Gym way called Brain Buttons: “This exercise stimulates the flow of oxygen-carrying blood through the carotid arteries to the brain to awaken it and increase concentration and relaxation. Brain buttons lie directly over and stimulate the carotid arteries.”. VOICES OF THE ANCIENTS Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 16 January 2010. Every now and then you have to salute a genius. Both the Daily Mail and the Metro report new research analysing the positions of Britain’s ancient sites, and the results are startling: primitive man had his own form of “sat nav”. Researcher Tom Brooks analysed 1,500 prehistoric monuments, and found them all to be on a grid of WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE PLACEBO EFFECT? If you like what I do, and you want me to do more, you can: buy my books Bad Science and Bad Pharma, give them to your friends, put them on your reading list, employ me to do a talk, or tweet this article to your friends.Thanks! +++++ 5 Responses. The Powerful Placebo « Stuff And Nonsense said,. November 13, 2009 at 10:34 pm HOW MANY EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A I wrote this for him. How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb? We’ve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of them turn this lightbulb on, some of them don’t; some of them only work sometimes; and some of them work sometimes, but twenty years after you flick them. Some of the switches only work THE TRIAL THAT ATE ITSELF Ben Goldacre Saturday September 9, 2006 The Guardian. Fish oil is clearly a matter of huge national importance. Channel 4 and ITV (and the Daily Mail, and the BBC) all report on a plan by education officials in County Durham to give £1 million worth of omega-3 fish oils, to 5,000 children as they approach their GCSE’s, and see how it improves performance. WHO’S HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN ON BIORESONANCE? Ben Goldacre Saturday November 12, 2005 The Guardian. I know you’re all looking forward to my fifth consecutive week writing about the tabloid’s favourite MRSA “laboratory”, but my Deep Throat keeps teasing me, so the latest explosion will have to wait. Now. It is a well-recognised phenomenon that swearing is only really funny when very old or very posh people do it: and likewise, bad THE RETURN OF MRSA EXPERT DR MALYSZEWICZ Dr Chris Malyszewicz PhD, disgraced MRSA “expert” who got false positive results from his garden shed laboratory with his non-accredited correspondence course PhD from America and his lack of microbiology training, and demonstrable (and demonstrated, and admitted) lack of microbiology knowledge, fountain of every single MRSA “undercover swab” scare in every single tabloid, who had WHAT’S WRONG WITH DR GILLIAN MCKEITH PHD? Ben Goldacre. Monday February 12, 2007. The Guardian. Call her the Awful Poo Lady, call her Dr Gillian McKeith PhD: she is an empire, a multi-millionaire, a phenomenon, a prime-time TV celebrity, a bestselling author. She has her own range of foods and mysterious powders, she has pills to give you an erection, and her face is inevery health
BAD SCIENCEABPIACADEMIC PRACADEMIC PUBLISHINGADVERTSAFRICAAIDS The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivorytower.
STATISTICS – BAD SCIENCE The first is simple: you can conflate two different things into one number, either to inflate a problem, or confuse it. Last weekend, a few hundred thousand people marched in London against the cuts. On the same day, there was some violent disturbance, windows smashed, policemen injured, and drunkeness. EQUAZEN – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 29 2008. And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale – don’t switch off now, the punchline’s funny. The county council said it was doing a “trial” of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed so that it couldn’t possibly give useful information – not least because it had no placebo groupROGER COGHILL
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday July 12, 2008. You will remember, two weeks ago now, we saw the Sunday Express claiming on its front page that an impressive government adviser called Dr Roger Coghill had performed a research study demonstrating that the Bridgend suicide cases all lived closer to a mobile phone mast than average. When I contacted Coghill it turned out he wasn’t really a PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCE August 25th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, onanism, placebo, podcast | 31 Comments ». So tonight at 9pm on BBC Radio 4 (Monday) you can hear the second episode of my two-part miniseries on the placebo effect, one of the most effective and neglected evidence based treatments known to man. In this show we look at the ethical and MRSA – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre Saturday November 19, 2005 The Guardian. I realise this is starting to look like some kind of dirty protest, but here is a window on to how the media sees itself in relation to scientific expertise, and how it copes with criticism, which just happens – entirely by coincidence – to involve the MRSA scandal. THE MEDICALISATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE September 1, 2008 at 1:06 pm. “The reigning myth of today is that the evils of society can all be understood as evils of impersonality, alienation, and coldness. The sum of these is an ideology of intimacy that transmutates political categories into psychological categories. NATIONAL HEALTHCARE: A BREEDING GROUND FOR joanna said, September 18, 2009 at 5:51 pm. The claim that having a national health care system is a breeding ground for terrorism is an attempt to use scare tactics towards the general US public to persuade them to fear implementing a national health care system. The claim is only based on a number of 8 imported Muslim doctors in the UK, which FEBRUARY – 2003 – BAD SCIENCE When hospital is a prison. The government wants to change the Mental Health Act so that some persistent offenders can be locked awaywithout charge.
HOW MANY EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A I wrote this for him. How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb? We’ve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of them turn this lightbulb on, some of them don’t; some of them only work sometimes; and some of them work sometimes, but twenty years after you flick them. Some of the switches only work BAD SCIENCEABPIACADEMIC PRACADEMIC PUBLISHINGADVERTSAFRICAAIDS The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivorytower.
STATISTICS – BAD SCIENCE The first is simple: you can conflate two different things into one number, either to inflate a problem, or confuse it. Last weekend, a few hundred thousand people marched in London against the cuts. On the same day, there was some violent disturbance, windows smashed, policemen injured, and drunkeness. EQUAZEN – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 29 2008. And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale – don’t switch off now, the punchline’s funny. The county council said it was doing a “trial” of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed so that it couldn’t possibly give useful information – not least because it had no placebo groupROGER COGHILL
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday July 12, 2008. You will remember, two weeks ago now, we saw the Sunday Express claiming on its front page that an impressive government adviser called Dr Roger Coghill had performed a research study demonstrating that the Bridgend suicide cases all lived closer to a mobile phone mast than average. When I contacted Coghill it turned out he wasn’t really a PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCE August 25th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, onanism, placebo, podcast | 31 Comments ». So tonight at 9pm on BBC Radio 4 (Monday) you can hear the second episode of my two-part miniseries on the placebo effect, one of the most effective and neglected evidence based treatments known to man. In this show we look at the ethical and MRSA – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre Saturday November 19, 2005 The Guardian. I realise this is starting to look like some kind of dirty protest, but here is a window on to how the media sees itself in relation to scientific expertise, and how it copes with criticism, which just happens – entirely by coincidence – to involve the MRSA scandal. THE MEDICALISATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE September 1, 2008 at 1:06 pm. “The reigning myth of today is that the evils of society can all be understood as evils of impersonality, alienation, and coldness. The sum of these is an ideology of intimacy that transmutates political categories into psychological categories. NATIONAL HEALTHCARE: A BREEDING GROUND FOR joanna said, September 18, 2009 at 5:51 pm. The claim that having a national health care system is a breeding ground for terrorism is an attempt to use scare tactics towards the general US public to persuade them to fear implementing a national health care system. The claim is only based on a number of 8 imported Muslim doctors in the UK, which FEBRUARY – 2003 – BAD SCIENCE When hospital is a prison. The government wants to change the Mental Health Act so that some persistent offenders can be locked awaywithout charge.
HOW MANY EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A I wrote this for him. How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb? We’ve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of them turn this lightbulb on, some of them don’t; some of them only work sometimes; and some of them work sometimes, but twenty years after you flick them. Some of the switches only workBAD SCIENCE
The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivorytower.
VACCINES – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre, Saturday 10 October 2009, The Guardian Last month I had a debate at the Royal Institution with Lord Drayson, the Science Minister, in which he argued that I was too harsh on British science coverage, which is the best in the world. During this event our chairman (bizarrely and excellently Simon Mayo) pulled out a health front page from the Express, and asked what we thought BRAIN GYM – BAD SCIENCE They tell you to rub either side of your breast bone, in a special Brain Gym way called Brain Buttons: “This exercise stimulates the flow of oxygen-carrying blood through the carotid arteries to the brain to awaken it and increase concentration and relaxation. Brain buttons lie directly over and stimulate the carotid arteries.”. VOICES OF THE ANCIENTS Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 16 January 2010. Every now and then you have to salute a genius. Both the Daily Mail and the Metro report new research analysing the positions of Britain’s ancient sites, and the results are startling: primitive man had his own form of “sat nav”. Researcher Tom Brooks analysed 1,500 prehistoric monuments, and found them all to be on a grid of WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE PLACEBO EFFECT? If you like what I do, and you want me to do more, you can: buy my books Bad Science and Bad Pharma, give them to your friends, put them on your reading list, employ me to do a talk, or tweet this article to your friends.Thanks! +++++ 5 Responses. The Powerful Placebo « Stuff And Nonsense said,. November 13, 2009 at 10:34 pm HOW MANY EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A I wrote this for him. How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb? We’ve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of them turn this lightbulb on, some of them don’t; some of them only work sometimes; and some of them work sometimes, but twenty years after you flick them. Some of the switches only work THE TRIAL THAT ATE ITSELF Ben Goldacre Saturday September 9, 2006 The Guardian. Fish oil is clearly a matter of huge national importance. Channel 4 and ITV (and the Daily Mail, and the BBC) all report on a plan by education officials in County Durham to give £1 million worth of omega-3 fish oils, to 5,000 children as they approach their GCSE’s, and see how it improves performance. WHO’S HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN ON BIORESONANCE? Ben Goldacre Saturday November 12, 2005 The Guardian. I know you’re all looking forward to my fifth consecutive week writing about the tabloid’s favourite MRSA “laboratory”, but my Deep Throat keeps teasing me, so the latest explosion will have to wait. Now. It is a well-recognised phenomenon that swearing is only really funny when very old or very posh people do it: and likewise, bad THE RETURN OF MRSA EXPERT DR MALYSZEWICZ Dr Chris Malyszewicz PhD, disgraced MRSA “expert” who got false positive results from his garden shed laboratory with his non-accredited correspondence course PhD from America and his lack of microbiology training, and demonstrable (and demonstrated, and admitted) lack of microbiology knowledge, fountain of every single MRSA “undercover swab” scare in every single tabloid, who had WHAT’S WRONG WITH DR GILLIAN MCKEITH PHD? Ben Goldacre. Monday February 12, 2007. The Guardian. Call her the Awful Poo Lady, call her Dr Gillian McKeith PhD: she is an empire, a multi-millionaire, a phenomenon, a prime-time TV celebrity, a bestselling author. She has her own range of foods and mysterious powders, she has pills to give you an erection, and her face is inevery health
BAD SCIENCEABPIACADEMIC PRACADEMIC PUBLISHINGADVERTSAFRICAAIDS The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivorytower.
VACCINES – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre, Saturday 10 October 2009, The Guardian Last month I had a debate at the Royal Institution with Lord Drayson, the Science Minister, in which he argued that I was too harsh on British science coverage, which is the best in the world. During this event our chairman (bizarrely and excellently Simon Mayo) pulled out a health front page from the Express, and asked what we thought SCREENING – BAD SCIENCE The Sun has been running a campaign to lower the screening age, on the back of Jade Goody’s death at 28 from cervical cancer, and gathered 108,000 signatures on a petition. The Metro newspaper have commissioned a poll showing that 82% of 16 to 24-year olds in England agree with lowering the screening age. Read the rest of this entry ».ROGER COGHILL
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday July 12, 2008. You will remember, two weeks ago now, we saw the Sunday Express claiming on its front page that an impressive government adviser called Dr Roger Coghill had performed a research study demonstrating that the Bridgend suicide cases all lived closer to a mobile phone mast than average. When I contacted Coghill it turned out he wasn’t really a PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCEBEN GOLDACRE BAD SCIENCE August 25th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, onanism, placebo, podcast | 31 Comments ». So tonight at 9pm on BBC Radio 4 (Monday) you can hear the second episode of my two-part miniseries on the placebo effect, one of the most effective and neglected evidence based treatments known to man. In this show we look at the ethical andTRIVIAL DISPUTES
If you like what I do, and you want me to do more, you can: buy my books Bad Science and Bad Pharma, give them to your friends, put them on your reading list, employ me to do a talk, or tweet this article to your friends.Thanks! +++++ 26 Responses. CaptainSensible said, FEBRUARY – 2003 – BAD SCIENCE When hospital is a prison. The government wants to change the Mental Health Act so that some persistent offenders can be locked awaywithout charge.
HERE’S OUR CABINET OFFICE PAPER ON RANDOMISED TRIALS OF So, with my grown up hat on, here’s a Cabinet Office paper I co-wrote with some government people on exactly this topic. We explain why randomised trials of policy are so powerful; we explain exactly how to do them; and we explain how to identify a meaningful policy question that can be explored cheaply in a good qualitytrial.Â.
“TRY ME, SH*THEAD” If you like what I do, and you want me to do more, you can: buy my books Bad Science and Bad Pharma, give them to your friends, put them on your reading list, employ me to do a talk, or tweet this article to your friends.Thanks! +++++ 40 Responses. RS said,. July 8, 2007 at 6:02 pm. I had the same reaction when I saw the articles. WHAT’S WRONG WITH DR GILLIAN MCKEITH PHD? Ben Goldacre. Monday February 12, 2007. The Guardian. Call her the Awful Poo Lady, call her Dr Gillian McKeith PhD: she is an empire, a multi-millionaire, a phenomenon, a prime-time TV celebrity, a bestselling author. She has her own range of foods and mysterious powders, she has pills to give you an erection, and her face is inevery health
BAD SCIENCEABPIACADEMIC PRACADEMIC PUBLISHINGADVERTSAFRICAAIDS The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivorytower.
VACCINES – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre, Saturday 10 October 2009, The Guardian Last month I had a debate at the Royal Institution with Lord Drayson, the Science Minister, in which he argued that I was too harsh on British science coverage, which is the best in the world. During this event our chairman (bizarrely and excellently Simon Mayo) pulled out a health front page from the Express, and asked what we thought SCREENING – BAD SCIENCE The Sun has been running a campaign to lower the screening age, on the back of Jade Goody’s death at 28 from cervical cancer, and gathered 108,000 signatures on a petition. The Metro newspaper have commissioned a poll showing that 82% of 16 to 24-year olds in England agree with lowering the screening age. Read the rest of this entry ».ROGER COGHILL
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday July 12, 2008. You will remember, two weeks ago now, we saw the Sunday Express claiming on its front page that an impressive government adviser called Dr Roger Coghill had performed a research study demonstrating that the Bridgend suicide cases all lived closer to a mobile phone mast than average. When I contacted Coghill it turned out he wasn’t really a PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCEBEN GOLDACRE BAD SCIENCE August 25th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, onanism, placebo, podcast | 31 Comments ». So tonight at 9pm on BBC Radio 4 (Monday) you can hear the second episode of my two-part miniseries on the placebo effect, one of the most effective and neglected evidence based treatments known to man. In this show we look at the ethical andTRIVIAL DISPUTES
If you like what I do, and you want me to do more, you can: buy my books Bad Science and Bad Pharma, give them to your friends, put them on your reading list, employ me to do a talk, or tweet this article to your friends.Thanks! +++++ 26 Responses. CaptainSensible said, FEBRUARY – 2003 – BAD SCIENCE When hospital is a prison. The government wants to change the Mental Health Act so that some persistent offenders can be locked awaywithout charge.
HERE’S OUR CABINET OFFICE PAPER ON RANDOMISED TRIALS OF So, with my grown up hat on, here’s a Cabinet Office paper I co-wrote with some government people on exactly this topic. We explain why randomised trials of policy are so powerful; we explain exactly how to do them; and we explain how to identify a meaningful policy question that can be explored cheaply in a good qualitytrial.Â.
“TRY ME, SH*THEAD” If you like what I do, and you want me to do more, you can: buy my books Bad Science and Bad Pharma, give them to your friends, put them on your reading list, employ me to do a talk, or tweet this article to your friends.Thanks! +++++ 40 Responses. RS said,. July 8, 2007 at 6:02 pm. I had the same reaction when I saw the articles. WHAT’S WRONG WITH DR GILLIAN MCKEITH PHD? Ben Goldacre. Monday February 12, 2007. The Guardian. Call her the Awful Poo Lady, call her Dr Gillian McKeith PhD: she is an empire, a multi-millionaire, a phenomenon, a prime-time TV celebrity, a bestselling author. She has her own range of foods and mysterious powders, she has pills to give you an erection, and her face is inevery health
BOOKS – BAD SCIENCE “Bad Science†(4th Estate) is my book about the misuse of science by quacks, journalists, and big pharmaceutical companies. It’s sold about 400,000 copies in the UK, got to #1 in the UK paperback non-fiction charts (at Christmas, call me Cliff Richard), and is published in about 30 countries. ABOUT DR BEN GOLDACRE Ben Goldacre is a doctor, academic, campaigner and writer whose work focuses on uses and misuses of science and statistics by journalists, politicians, drug companies and quacks. His first book Bad Science reached #1 in the UK non-fiction charts and has sold over half a million copies worldwide. His second book Bad Pharma discussesproblems in
VACCINES – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre, Saturday 10 October 2009, The Guardian Last month I had a debate at the Royal Institution with Lord Drayson, the Science Minister, in which he argued that I was too harsh on British science coverage, which is the best in the world. During this event our chairman (bizarrely and excellently Simon Mayo) pulled out a health front page from the Express, and asked what we thought THE BAD SCIENCE SHOP The Bad Science Shop. The Bad Science T-Shirt Shop. For all your MMR-defending nutritionist-bashing rational-empiricist post-enlightenment fashion requirements, and at very reasonable prices. Including the “MMR is safe ~ tell your friends” range, perfect for parents’ evenings, barbecues, dinner parties, and EQUAZEN – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 29 2008. And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale – don’t switch off now, the punchline’s funny. The county council said it was doing a “trial” of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed so that it couldn’t possibly give useful information – not least because it had no placebo group BRAIN GYM – BAD SCIENCE They tell you to rub either side of your breast bone, in a special Brain Gym way called Brain Buttons: “This exercise stimulates the flow of oxygen-carrying blood through the carotid arteries to the brain to awaken it and increase concentration and relaxation. Brain buttons lie directly over and stimulate the carotid arteries.”. PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday August 23 2008. What I particularly enjoy is the spectacle of fat people – ideally drinking beer – watching television, while somewhere on the other side of the world citizens of all nations are getting some nice exercise in the Olympics (throwing javelins, jumping over metal bars, climbing lamp posts with banners, and running away from the THE YEAR IN NONSENSE Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 19 December 2009. It’s been a vintage year for dodgy science in government. We saw reports on cocaine that were disappeared, dodgy evidence to justify DNA retention, and some government advisors who estimated the cost of piracy at 10% of GDP, to media applause, and then failed to tell everyone they’d got the figure wrong by 1000%. AUGUST – 2005 – BAD SCIENCE August 25th, 2005 by Ben Goldacre in bad science | 5 Comments ». Ben Goldacre. Thursday August 25, 2005. The Guardian. · “Magnetic bandages can help wounds heal faster,” says the Daily Mail, which is certainly a headline that invites close reading. WHO’S HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN ON BIORESONANCE? This is a story, in all the authoritative regalia of television news, about the excellently bonkers “bioresonance” treatment to help smokers kick the habit. “The bioresonance treatment is analysing the energy wave patterns in Jean’s body,” they begin. “It finds the frequency pattern of the nicotine and reverses it. BAD SCIENCEABPIACADEMIC PRACADEMIC PUBLISHINGADVERTSAFRICAAIDS The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivorytower.
VACCINES – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre, Saturday 10 October 2009, The Guardian Last month I had a debate at the Royal Institution with Lord Drayson, the Science Minister, in which he argued that I was too harsh on British science coverage, which is the best in the world. During this event our chairman (bizarrely and excellently Simon Mayo) pulled out a health front page from the Express, and asked what we thought SCREENING – BAD SCIENCE The Sun has been running a campaign to lower the screening age, on the back of Jade Goody’s death at 28 from cervical cancer, and gathered 108,000 signatures on a petition. The Metro newspaper have commissioned a poll showing that 82% of 16 to 24-year olds in England agree with lowering the screening age. Read the rest of this entry ».ROGER COGHILL
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday July 12, 2008. You will remember, two weeks ago now, we saw the Sunday Express claiming on its front page that an impressive government adviser called Dr Roger Coghill had performed a research study demonstrating that the Bridgend suicide cases all lived closer to a mobile phone mast than average. When I contacted Coghill it turned out he wasn’t really a PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCEBEN GOLDACRE BAD SCIENCE August 25th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, onanism, placebo, podcast | 31 Comments ». So tonight at 9pm on BBC Radio 4 (Monday) you can hear the second episode of my two-part miniseries on the placebo effect, one of the most effective and neglected evidence based treatments known to man. In this show we look at the ethical andTRIVIAL DISPUTES
If you like what I do, and you want me to do more, you can: buy my books Bad Science and Bad Pharma, give them to your friends, put them on your reading list, employ me to do a talk, or tweet this article to your friends.Thanks! +++++ 26 Responses. CaptainSensible said, FEBRUARY – 2003 – BAD SCIENCE When hospital is a prison. The government wants to change the Mental Health Act so that some persistent offenders can be locked awaywithout charge.
HERE’S OUR CABINET OFFICE PAPER ON RANDOMISED TRIALS OF So, with my grown up hat on, here’s a Cabinet Office paper I co-wrote with some government people on exactly this topic. We explain why randomised trials of policy are so powerful; we explain exactly how to do them; and we explain how to identify a meaningful policy question that can be explored cheaply in a good qualitytrial.Â.
“TRY ME, SH*THEAD” If you like what I do, and you want me to do more, you can: buy my books Bad Science and Bad Pharma, give them to your friends, put them on your reading list, employ me to do a talk, or tweet this article to your friends.Thanks! +++++ 40 Responses. RS said,. July 8, 2007 at 6:02 pm. I had the same reaction when I saw the articles. WHAT’S WRONG WITH DR GILLIAN MCKEITH PHD? Ben Goldacre. Monday February 12, 2007. The Guardian. Call her the Awful Poo Lady, call her Dr Gillian McKeith PhD: she is an empire, a multi-millionaire, a phenomenon, a prime-time TV celebrity, a bestselling author. She has her own range of foods and mysterious powders, she has pills to give you an erection, and her face is inevery health
BAD SCIENCEABPIACADEMIC PRACADEMIC PUBLISHINGADVERTSAFRICAAIDS The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivorytower.
VACCINES – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre, Saturday 10 October 2009, The Guardian Last month I had a debate at the Royal Institution with Lord Drayson, the Science Minister, in which he argued that I was too harsh on British science coverage, which is the best in the world. During this event our chairman (bizarrely and excellently Simon Mayo) pulled out a health front page from the Express, and asked what we thought SCREENING – BAD SCIENCE The Sun has been running a campaign to lower the screening age, on the back of Jade Goody’s death at 28 from cervical cancer, and gathered 108,000 signatures on a petition. The Metro newspaper have commissioned a poll showing that 82% of 16 to 24-year olds in England agree with lowering the screening age. Read the rest of this entry ».ROGER COGHILL
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday July 12, 2008. You will remember, two weeks ago now, we saw the Sunday Express claiming on its front page that an impressive government adviser called Dr Roger Coghill had performed a research study demonstrating that the Bridgend suicide cases all lived closer to a mobile phone mast than average. When I contacted Coghill it turned out he wasn’t really a PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCEBEN GOLDACRE BAD SCIENCE August 25th, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, onanism, placebo, podcast | 31 Comments ». So tonight at 9pm on BBC Radio 4 (Monday) you can hear the second episode of my two-part miniseries on the placebo effect, one of the most effective and neglected evidence based treatments known to man. In this show we look at the ethical andTRIVIAL DISPUTES
If you like what I do, and you want me to do more, you can: buy my books Bad Science and Bad Pharma, give them to your friends, put them on your reading list, employ me to do a talk, or tweet this article to your friends.Thanks! +++++ 26 Responses. CaptainSensible said, FEBRUARY – 2003 – BAD SCIENCE When hospital is a prison. The government wants to change the Mental Health Act so that some persistent offenders can be locked awaywithout charge.
HERE’S OUR CABINET OFFICE PAPER ON RANDOMISED TRIALS OF So, with my grown up hat on, here’s a Cabinet Office paper I co-wrote with some government people on exactly this topic. We explain why randomised trials of policy are so powerful; we explain exactly how to do them; and we explain how to identify a meaningful policy question that can be explored cheaply in a good qualitytrial.Â.
“TRY ME, SH*THEAD” If you like what I do, and you want me to do more, you can: buy my books Bad Science and Bad Pharma, give them to your friends, put them on your reading list, employ me to do a talk, or tweet this article to your friends.Thanks! +++++ 40 Responses. RS said,. July 8, 2007 at 6:02 pm. I had the same reaction when I saw the articles. WHAT’S WRONG WITH DR GILLIAN MCKEITH PHD? Ben Goldacre. Monday February 12, 2007. The Guardian. Call her the Awful Poo Lady, call her Dr Gillian McKeith PhD: she is an empire, a multi-millionaire, a phenomenon, a prime-time TV celebrity, a bestselling author. She has her own range of foods and mysterious powders, she has pills to give you an erection, and her face is inevery health
BOOKS – BAD SCIENCE “Bad Science†(4th Estate) is my book about the misuse of science by quacks, journalists, and big pharmaceutical companies. It’s sold about 400,000 copies in the UK, got to #1 in the UK paperback non-fiction charts (at Christmas, call me Cliff Richard), and is published in about 30 countries. ABOUT DR BEN GOLDACRE Ben Goldacre is a doctor, academic, campaigner and writer whose work focuses on uses and misuses of science and statistics by journalists, politicians, drug companies and quacks. His first book Bad Science reached #1 in the UK non-fiction charts and has sold over half a million copies worldwide. His second book Bad Pharma discussesproblems in
VACCINES – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre, Saturday 10 October 2009, The Guardian Last month I had a debate at the Royal Institution with Lord Drayson, the Science Minister, in which he argued that I was too harsh on British science coverage, which is the best in the world. During this event our chairman (bizarrely and excellently Simon Mayo) pulled out a health front page from the Express, and asked what we thought THE BAD SCIENCE SHOP The Bad Science Shop. The Bad Science T-Shirt Shop. For all your MMR-defending nutritionist-bashing rational-empiricist post-enlightenment fashion requirements, and at very reasonable prices. Including the “MMR is safe ~ tell your friends” range, perfect for parents’ evenings, barbecues, dinner parties, and EQUAZEN – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 29 2008. And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale – don’t switch off now, the punchline’s funny. The county council said it was doing a “trial” of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed so that it couldn’t possibly give useful information – not least because it had no placebo group BRAIN GYM – BAD SCIENCE They tell you to rub either side of your breast bone, in a special Brain Gym way called Brain Buttons: “This exercise stimulates the flow of oxygen-carrying blood through the carotid arteries to the brain to awaken it and increase concentration and relaxation. Brain buttons lie directly over and stimulate the carotid arteries.”. PLACEBO – BAD SCIENCE Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday August 23 2008. What I particularly enjoy is the spectacle of fat people – ideally drinking beer – watching television, while somewhere on the other side of the world citizens of all nations are getting some nice exercise in the Olympics (throwing javelins, jumping over metal bars, climbing lamp posts with banners, and running away from the THE YEAR IN NONSENSE Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 19 December 2009. It’s been a vintage year for dodgy science in government. We saw reports on cocaine that were disappeared, dodgy evidence to justify DNA retention, and some government advisors who estimated the cost of piracy at 10% of GDP, to media applause, and then failed to tell everyone they’d got the figure wrong by 1000%. AUGUST – 2005 – BAD SCIENCE August 25th, 2005 by Ben Goldacre in bad science | 5 Comments ». Ben Goldacre. Thursday August 25, 2005. The Guardian. · “Magnetic bandages can help wounds heal faster,” says the Daily Mail, which is certainly a headline that invites close reading. WHO’S HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN ON BIORESONANCE? This is a story, in all the authoritative regalia of television news, about the excellently bonkers “bioresonance” treatment to help smokers kick the habit. “The bioresonance treatment is analysing the energy wave patterns in Jean’s body,” they begin. “It finds the frequency pattern of the nicotine and reverses it.Bad Science
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EVIDENCE TO HOUSE OF COMMONS SCI TECH SELECT COMMITTEE ON RESEARCHINTEGRITY
December 5th, 2017 by Ben Goldacre in alltrials campaign, publication
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Sorry not to be in regular blogging mode at the moment. Here’s a video of our evidence session to parliament, where they are running an inquiry into research integrity. I think clinical trials are the best possible way to approach this issue. Lots of things in “research integrity” are hard to capture in hard logical rules, so you end up with waffly “concordats” and rules that are applied inconsistently. With clinical trials you can make clear rules, you can measure compliance, and you can enforce compliance. There is lots of chat about this in the video below from 17:37 with me, Simon Read the rest of this entry » HOW DO THE WORLD’S BIGGEST DRUG COMPANIES COMPARE, IN THEIR TRANSPARENCY COMMITMENTS? July 27th, 2017 by Ben Goldacre in bad science| No Comments »
Here’s a paper , and associated website , that we launch today: we have assessed, and then ranked, all the biggest drug companies in the world, to compare their public commitments on trials transparency. Regular readers will be familiar with this ongoing battle . In medicine we use the results of clinical trials to make informed treatments about which treatments work best; but the results of clinical trials are being routinely and legally withheld from doctors, researchers, and patients. This is a problem for industry sponsored trials, _and_ for trials funded by governmentsand charities.
So what did we find ? The results on the individual companies are important, but we also came across some fascinating patterns. While companies superficially have commitments to register and report clinical trials, in reality, there are often huge gaps in their policies, with many failing to include past trials (trials on the medicines we use today) and trials on off-label uses or unlicensed medicines, which are both important. We also found a huge _range_ of commitments, which is exactly what audits are good for: identify who’s doing well, and who’s doing badly, so that everyone can learn from the best players. Lastly, as we went along we collected some fascinating examples of problematic policies, ambiguous language, inconsistent commitments, odd exclusions, and so on. Overall this audit was a huge project, and we hope it will be widely used. You can see which companies are the best, and the worst. If you’re a researcher trying to get information on a trial from a company, you can use this to determine whether a company are breaching their commitments. If you’re an ethical investor (at the AllTrials campaign we have a network of dozens, covering €3.5t trillion of investments) you can use this to guide your activist investment choices. The full methods and results can be read, for free, in the paper . But we’ve also built a nice interactive website with mySociety
 (coming soon) to make the data more accessible. We think this is an important aspect of communicating results and making them useful, and used, and we’re keen for feedback on the site. Coming next, we have ranked the policies of non-industry trial funders, and that paper will land shortly. We also have some great new and improved projects launching soon where we track the _performance_ of institutions, rather than their promises: the proportion of their completed trials for which they have shared results. Meanwhile, you can read more about the battle for unreported clinical trials atAllTrials.net .
Onward!
MEANINGFUL TRANSPARENCY COMMITMENTS: THE WHO JOINT STATEMENT FROMTRIAL FUNDERS
July 26th, 2017 by Ben Goldacre in bad science, publication bias
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By now I hope you all know about the ongoing global scandal of clinical trial results being left unpublished, and of course our AllTrials campaign . Doctors, researchers, and patients cannot make truly informed choices about which treatments work best if they don’t have access to all the trial results. Earlier this year, I helped out with a World Health Organisation project to get non-industry clinical trial funders signed up to making better policies on transparency. This BMJ editorial (sorry, I’m late posting it, published last month!) describes the new commitments, and why this commitment is more convincing than previous vaguer statements. Read the rest of this entry » HOW MANY EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHTBULB? February 1st, 2017 by Ben Goldacre in bad science| No Comments »
Robin Ince just asked if I know any epidemiologist lightbulb jokes. I wrotethis for him.
> _How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb?_>
> We’ve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of > them turn this lightbulb on, some of them don’t; some of them > only work sometimes; and some of them work sometimes, but twenty > years after you flick them. Some of the switches only work, > sometimes, twenty years later, if one of the other switches is > flicked too (and at the right time). In any case the wiring’s > rusty, everything’s completely different in the house next > door, and by the way there are lots of people selling spare bulbs > who tell lies about houses, switches, and fingers.>
> We can change the lightbulb, but I’m not sure that’ll > stop you dying from cancer in this metaphor. “TRANSPARENCY, BEYOND PUBLICATION BIAS”. A VIDEO OF MY SUPER-SPEEDY TALK AT IJE. October 11th, 2016 by Ben Goldacre in bad science| No Comments »
People often talk about “trials transparency” as if this means “all trials must be published in an academic journal”. In reality, true transparency goes much further than this. We need Clinical StudyReports , and
individual patient data, of course. But we also need the consent forms,
so we can see what patients were told. We need the analyticcode
, so we can
see exactly how the data were analysed. We need access to post-publication peer review , so we can see what design flaws others have identified. And we don’t just need these things to be publicly available, in some form or another: we ideally need them to be available as open data, freely
shareable and re-usable, which is a very different kettle of ballpark. And then, of course, we need this data to be used, which means we need to think about building tools that make it useful . Finally, we can’t just whine about the world not being as we would wish it to be, or write academic papers describing the problem: we need a practical theory of change, and a set of clear strategies that will deliver greater transparency.  This is my talk at the International Journal of Epidemiology Conference,
2016. It takes 29 minutes of your life, at speed:Â I hope you findit useful.
YOU SHOULD TOTALLY WATCH THIS ENTIRE DAY OF THE IJE CONFERENCE October 7th, 2016 by Ben Goldacre in bad science| No Comments »
Today marks the end of an era. The International Journal of Epidemiology used to be a typical hotchpotch of isolated papers on worthy subjects. Occasionally, some were interesting, or related to your field. Under Shah Ebrahim and George Davey-Smith it became like nothing else: an epidemiology journal you’d happily subscribe to with your own money, and read in the bath. Read the restof this entry »
AN AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH THE CONVERSATION, ON SMASHING THE WALLS OF THEIVORY TOWER
October 3rd, 2016 by Ben Goldacre in bad science| No Comments »
The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivory tower. Caution: contains nerds! theconversation.com/speaking-with-bad-pharma-author-ben-goldacre-about-how-bad-research-hurts-us-all-65800 SAREPTA, ETEPLIRSEN: ANECDOTE, DATA, SURROGATE OUTCOMES, AND THE FDA September 30th, 2016 by Ben Goldacre in bad science| 5 Comments »
The Duchenne’s treatment made by Sarepta (eteplirsen) has been inthe news
this
week, as a troubling example of the FDA lowering its bar for
approval of new medicines. The FDA expert advisory panel decidednot to approve
 this
treatment, because the evidence for any benefit is weak; but there was extensive lobbying from well-organised patients and,
eventually, the FDA overturned the opinion of its own panel. There have been calls for paperretractions
,
and so on.
This is not the first time we’ve seen peculiar activity around the treatment. Read the rest of this entry » THE CANCER DRUGS FUND IS PRODUCING DANGEROUS, BAD DATA: RANDOMISE EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE! September 28th, 2016 by Ben Goldacre in bad science| 6 Comments »
There are recurring howls in my work. One of them is this: in general, if you don’t know which intervention works best, then you should randomise everyone, everywhere. This is for good reason: uncertainty costs lives, through sub-optimal treatment. Wherever randomised trials are the right approach, you should embed them in routine clinical care. This is an argument I’ve made, with colleagues, in endless different places. New diabetes drugs are approved with woeful data, small numbers of patients in trials that only measure blood tests, rather than real-world outcomes such as heart attack, renal failure, or death: so let’s roll out new diabetes treatmentsin the NHS through
randomised trials. We rely on observational studies to establish whether Tamiflu reduces complications of pneumonia: that’s silly, wecan do trials
,
and we should. Statin treatment regimes in widespread use have never been compared head-to-head,
using real-world outcomes such as heart attack, stroke, and death: so let’s embed randomised trials as cheaply as possible in routine clinical care (we’ve done twopilots
,
to document the barriers). This week a dozen colleagues and I published yet another application of this basic, simple principle, as an editorial in theBMJ
.
The Cancer Drugs Fund is being marketed as a way to generate new knowledge:Â but in reality, the data that will be collected is weak, Read the rest of this entry » TAKING TRANSPARENCY BEYOND RESULTS: ETHICS COMMITTEES MUST WORK IN THEOPEN
September 23rd, 2016 by Ben Goldacre in bad science| 2 Comments »
Here’s a useful paper we’ve just published in the BMJ, documenting problems in transparency around approval processes for randomised trials. There’s a basic rule in clinical research: you’re only supposed to do a trial comparing two treatments when you really don’t know which one is best, otherwise you’d be knowingly randomising half your participants to an inferior treatment. Despite this, it’s already known that trials are
sometimes conducted where one group get a substandard treatment. We wanted to find out how ethics committees come to approve such trials. Read the rest of this entry »Older Entries
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