You're a bit slow.Pity you don't see the irony in what you post....

You're a bit slow.

Pity you don't see the irony in what you post.

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Posted 24/05/20
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Post #: 44801078

Ben Goldacre unpicks dodgy scientific claims made by scaremongering journalists, dubious government reports, pharmaceutical corporations, PR companies and quacks.

https://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science?language=en#t-383516

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Post #: 68717455

Bad Science
Ben Goldacre

TED Talks: Ben Goldacre - Battling bad science

Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they're right? Doctor and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted, from the blindingly obvious nutrition claims to the very subtle tricks of the pharmaceutical industry.

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What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe | Ben Goldacre

When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world -- except much of the time, negative or inconclusive findings go unreported, leaving doctors and researchers in the dark. In this impassioned talk, Ben Goldacre explains why these unreported instances of negative data are especially misleading and dangerous.

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"Ben Michael Goldacre MBE is a British physician, academic and science writer. As of March 2015, he is a senior clinical research fellow at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, part of the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences", who has done extensive work on dodgy trials and charlatans.