Well founded suspicions of Sensationalised Science Reporting

One of my daughters gave me a super Christmas present this year, the book  “Bad Science”, by Ben Goldacre.

This is a wonderful work and should be a set book for all “A” level schoolkids. There are chapters on:

• Brain Gym
• Homeopathy
• the Placebo Effect
• Mainstream Medicine
• How the Media Promote the Public Misunderstanding of Science
• Medical “trials”
• the Pharmaceutical Companies
• Bad Stats
• Health Scares
• the Media’s MMR Hoax

…. plus several others on various very rich charlatans in the field of alternative medicine and other areas. It also contains a concise and terrible account of the insanity of Thabo Mbeki’s nutty ideas on HIV and AIDS, which killed tens of thousands of people. Continue reading “Identifying Bullshit in Science” →